Traveling and Places

Worshipping Senkoji-Temple in Hirano and Enjoying the Jigoku-do

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As Jigoku-do is getting popular as a sightseeing place, people tend to forget that Senkoji is a historical and sacred place with a pure, and calm beauty of Mizukake-Fudo san. Whenever I see the statue, I feel as if he purify my soul even though I am not a religious person at all. It was one of my pleasure to visit Senkoji-temple and threw water on Mizukake-Fudo san (the beautiful buddha statue covered by moss) in a beautiful pond with carps. Mizukake-fudou san Lovely carps. Passing through by the pond of Mizukake Fudou, there is a tiny museum named ‘Tiny mon-and-pop candy store Museum’. It always exhibits dioramas or miniature … [Read more…]

The memories of the old tent show exhibition at MINPAKU and Shoujyo-Tsubaki, the famous cult movie

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showing my face from the hole of the signboard for the tent-show

I’ve just had an offer from my agent to work at the National Museum of Ethnology as an administration staff member, but it has not been decided yet, which reminded me of the last year’s fun memory of the exhibition mentioned below. I went to the exhibition about the history of Japanese show tents at the National Museum of Ethnology in October last year. These tents would closely resemble what was considered a freak show.  The exhibition was amazing, not only academic, but also rich in variety including freak shows, mechanical dolls like automated and 3D models of horrible sights of murder or something like that! I love USJ horror nights and I … [Read more…]