{"id":293,"date":"2009-06-06T22:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-06-06T23:08:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T14:08:27","slug":"hanging-out-in-kanagawa-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2009\/06\/06\/hanging-out-in-kanagawa-ken\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging out in Kanagawa-ken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will I ever actually start writing what I intended to write about two hours ago when I first sat down at my computer to add to my blog?  I hope.  Things just kept popping in to my head, so they became their own entries.<\/p>\n<p>You need to read June 6 entries from bottom to top.<\/p>\n<p>So indeed, I had a great weekend.  Recapping, in case you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to read from bottom to top,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My friend David (or Dave) from Los Angeles \/ San Francisco was visiting Japan with his from David (or Dave) from San Francisco. Apparently, Nagoya isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t interesting enough to warrant a visit (sigh) so I made the trek up to Tokyo. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a huge sacrifice of course, having to go to Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Dave (my old friend and not his friend) and I planned to meet for dinner on Friday night at 8:00 pm in Shinjuku. Dave had met my friend Jin during his visits to LA so I invited Jin to join us as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jin invited a friend of his along as well, and we went to a nice caf\u00c3\u00a9 in Shinjuku Ni-chome and checked out the scene.  It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t West Hollywood or the Castro, but it had its own vibe.  Jin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend remains unidentified per his request.  Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Dave, Dave, Dave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend Kenji and I met Saturday morning to do a day trip to Kamakura.  I had not been to Kamakura in years.  Some of my favorite black and white photos from Japan are from Kamakura.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkgal3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkgal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkgal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was curious what it would be like to go back to Kamakura with a digital camera instead of my film camera.  Can I say I miss shooting on film?<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time hanging out together, and I enjoyed Dave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend Dave and Dave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend Dave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend Kenji.  I think from now on I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll refer to Dave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend Dave as Dave II.  I wish Tomo could have joined us, and that was the plan, but unfortunately last minute work plans messed up his schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Kamakura is known for it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e5\u00a4\u00a7\u00e4\u00bb\u008f (daibutsu) or huge statue of Buddha.  When we got off the train I saw the  picture below and thought, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the big deal?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kklittlebuddha.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ha ha.  We walked to some different areas than I had not seen before and visited lots of temples.  We stumbled across a Shinto wedding, complete with the traditional videographer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkshinto1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was cool to catch just the bride, groom, and the attendants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkshinto2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were a number of beautiful things to see at the various temples.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly though, we saw so many, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve forgotten what we actually saw, so just enjoy the pictures below with no sense of place.  Sorry about that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kktempl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kktempl2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkwater.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkgrass.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkdave.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkrocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkcircle.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkbluebuddha.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kknofire.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At one temple, there was a woman selling cookies.  It was clear that it was a fundraiser and she had samples.  The cookies were very good.  She was trying to communicate what the fundraising was about.  I totally misunderstood her, and Dave II will claim that it was my doing.  Anyway, I thought she was telling me that the cookies will make you smart because she was pointing to her head.  Then she pointed to the picture which clearly indicated that the cookies were hand made by children with Down\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Syndrome.  Needless to say, we bought some and referred to them as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the guilt cookies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as we munched them throughout the day.  Miscommunication \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to hate it sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>We had a terrific lunch and Dave II took some amazing food porn pictures.  As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned before, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not so good with food porn, so you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just have to believe me.<\/p>\n<p>We wandered back to downtown Kamakura by train and then went to the daibutsu.  It was as great as I remember.<\/p>\n<p>Giving a sense of scale<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkdaiscale.jpg\" alt=\"A very large buddha\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A color version of my previous black and white<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkdaicolor.jpg\" alt=\"The daibutsu in color\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It gets pretty hot being the daibutsu ..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkdaiback.jpg\" alt=\"Back vents\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are Dave II, Dave, and Kenji at the shrine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkdaitrio.jpg\" alt=\"Fellow travelers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We also went to check at the \u00e5\u0153\u00b0\u00e8\u201d\u00b5 (jizou) at Hasedera.  Jizou are the guardian deity of children, or the patron deity of pregnant women.  Many times, a statue is placed at this temple for lost children, often times aborted children.  In the past when I was there, many of the jizou were highly decorated with toys, beads, and clothes.  This time it seems there is an effort to tone things down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkjizo1.jpg\" alt=\"Jizo\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkjizo2.jpg\" alt=\"jizo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We walked to the beach at Kamakura as well and decided it was pretty ugly and dirty.  For dinner, we thought we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d go to Chinatown in Yokohama.  On the way there we saw something I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never seen before \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a parent falling asleep instead of a child.  It must have been a long day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kktiredtrain.jpg\" alt=\"Tired on the train\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We walked around Chinatown and finally made it to dinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkchina1.jpg\" alt=\"Yokohama Chinatown\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkchina2.jpg\" alt=\"Yokohama Chinatown\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkchina3.jpg\" alt=\"Yokohama Chinatown\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, on our travels, we saw a few things that just didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense to us.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never seen a name this long in Japan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kklongname.jpg\" alt=\"I've never seen a name this long\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkoxy.jpg\" alt=\"Huh?\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkicepig.jpg\" alt=\"A pork ice cream shop?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how Amish cooking is related to Kamakura.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkamish1.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Amish\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/kkamish2.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Amish\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Tomo and I got to hang out together.  We saw Star Trek.  He had not seen any of the Star Trek movies and enjoyed it.  I liked it too, although I think J. J. Abrams needs to stay away from time travel in everything he does.  It is too convenient.<\/p>\n<p>There, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a major blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will I ever actually start writing what I intended to write about two hours ago when I first sat down at my computer to add to my blog? I hope. Things just kept popping in to my head, so they became their own entries. You need to read June 6 entries from bottom to top. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2009\/06\/06\/hanging-out-in-kanagawa-ken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hanging out in Kanagawa-ken&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-experiences","category-engrish","category-photo-content","category-vacations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}