Random Japan #41 :: The Old Sea Dog
Welcome back to everyone's favorite random look at Japan, Random Japan. Today is even more random than usual, a collection of shots taken as I shuttle my kids around town on our bicycle. Now there's a title for a photo collection!
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If you look closely in the center of the image, you can see a head through the overgrown yard. It is a navel captain, presumably someone famous although I can't see any name or recognize the face. Yamamoto, perhaps. Except this guy has a beard calling to mind a 19th century naval captain. An odd thing to see at any house, but especially an abandoned one. I wonder what other oddities are awaiting to discover in this yard and house.
A guest appearance! That is my youngest son's foot. He was interested in the old rusted guardrail so I stopped and let him have a look. Then I decided he was on to something—it is an interesting rail. Out the camera comes!
This is from a temple I stumbled onto. Perhaps I'll share more photos of temple things in a future post, but for now, this old seesaw that has seen better days. I wonder if any kids actually come in here to use the old thing.
Nothing special here—just a parking space. I suppose it might be kind of curious to some people that they use the roman letter A instead of a Japanese character. The roman alphabet is one of the 4 alphabets the Japanese use, though, so it's not as surprising to find as you may think.
That's all, folks. Do any of these jump out at you? Let me know in the comments. Join us next time for another Random Japan. Same random time, same random channel. See you then!
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The old captain, is that a sculpture? I can't figure it out. I've often dreamed of wandering around a small town in Japan so thanks for sharing these random snippets of the landscape. You tend to focus on details of surface or crowded overgrown scenes .. kind of wabi sabi I guess ...
Yep, it's a sculpture. Either the owner of this house bought it or made it.
Hmm... that is an interesting analysis of my shots. I wonder if I have always done that throughout this series.
Thanks for the comment :)
I really like that seesaw photograph. It’s a little terrifying.
Thanks 😃 What is even more terrifying is that a foot beyond it is a drop of several meters. This temple is on a large hill.
I guess it’s a good thing that it’s not a swingset;)
I've taken out minutes, but search me where that capatain might be! How tiny is it? What colour is it? Any further search directions would be most welcome to this blind bat.
Pretty tiny. He is dead center. Unfortunately the color of the statue is nearly the same as the color of the window shutter, making him hard to spot. This may be one case where I'll need to return to this house with a nicer camera to grab a better shot of that old sea dog.
We loved playing on seesaws as kids, but perhaps this one is not fit to play on any longer!
I think I agree with you. I guess it was thrown here more as a storage place and not so much as a play area. Still, it might be better used as firewood.
😂 I suppose!