Oideyasu! Please take off your shoes.
Dressed up in parasols and lanterns for the Gion Festival.
Doesn't look like much from the sky, does it? Scale-wise, it's about 7 km from Kyoto Station to Kamigamo jinja in the north, about 1.5 million population down there.
We went to a tea shop for Yoshiko's birthday. She took this picture.
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An annotated satellite map of the Kansai region of Japan and beyond, showing Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara, and also including Wakayama, Awaji Island and the Tokushima part of Shikoku Island, Mie and Nagoya. 
Parade is today, but I'm out of town in the morning.
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I just love the design of this place, and it's about 1 minute from my mother's house, so that's why you see it here a lot. Greg had his first immunization today, BCG (to prevent tuberculosis). He only cried while the nurse was smashing the macerator thing against his arm. He stopped just after she did.
There are new pictures of Gregory in the gallery.
Front and back views of a maiko in Miyagawacho.
The chairman of the NPO, Mr. Nishi, was celebrating the one-year anniversary of opening his Miyagawa-cho machiya, and invited me up for to the second-floor party for sushi and music. The yellow-stringed koto was huge. like a barn door, with 17 strings.
I also slapped together some quicktime video. (7MB)
I've been busy with new daddy stuff and work stuff, but I think I can now return to my regular posting schedule. Thanks to anyone who still looks.
