Showing posts with label shodoshima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shodoshima. Show all posts
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Down the Mito Peninsula
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Friday, October 20, 2023
Temples 24 to 27 Shodoshima Pilgrimage
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Minenoyama-an & Hondo Temples 22, 23 Shodoshima Pilgrimage
Next I head along the main coast road to the next settlement which has 4 pilgrimage temples to visit. The previous post in this series was on the last 4 temples I visited yesterday, Christmas Day.
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Thursday, April 20, 2023
Kankakei Gorge Ropeway Shodoshima
The view from the top of Kankakei Gorge, which is located roughly in the middle of Shodoshima Island.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020
Anger From the Bottom by Beat Takeshi
As I was climbing up towards the first mountain temple on the Shodoshima Pilgrimage I spied ahead of me what I guessed was a kind of shrine. When I got to it I was faced with a stainless steel figure with big red eyes and an axe embedded in its skull.
Anger From the Bottom is a sculpture by "Beat" Takeshi Kitano and Keniji Yanobe, originally produced for the Setouchi Art Triennale that takes place in the area. It is one of the artworks that is now permanently on display.
Originally there was no roof over it, and the statue was below ground only rising up for 5 minutes every hour. Takeshi is famous in japan as a comedian and TV presenter, but internationally he is known as a film-maker. The unexpected and surprising is a large part of why I enjoy my walks around rural Japan......
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
The Original 24 Eyes School
24 Eyes ( Nijyushi no Hitomi ) was one of the most popular Japanese movies ever. The original was made in 1955 and was set in an elementary school on Shodoshima which was also the actual location for the filming.
In 1987 the made a remake of the movie but development had made location filming difficult so a fake village and school was built a few k down the road and is now a movie theme park...
There were far fewer visitors at the real school.
There are hundreds and hundreds of these old schools abandoned all across the Japanese countryside, a few being conserved, but most not....
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