閉門 ( heimon )                    I close the door of my house.
   是即 ( kore sunawachi )    That is
   深山 ( shinzan )　               I'm deep in the mountains.
                                                   ( I'll read books to my heart's content. )

                   THE SINGERS UNLIMITED  "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"

                   Happy Holidays!

                                       Shibuya, Tokyo

                   Café, Tokyo

                                  Under the elevated railway

                   Under construction

                   虎ノ門ヒルズです。

                                  Sangenjaya, Tokyo

 

                   WORLD ORDER  "BOY MEETS GIRL"

                                  Tokyo by night

                   Metropolitan Komazawa Olympic Park, Tokyo

                                  Atago-yama, Tokyo

                                  yama = mountain
                                  It is 26 meters above sea level.

                                  The pictures around Atago-yama drawn in 1700s-1800s.
                                  (Click the green line under the picture to enlarge it.)

                                  OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN: View from Atago-yama Tokyo 1890s

                   Movie posters

                                  Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, Tokyo

    "Meiji" is a Japanese era (1868-1912) which is the reign of the Emperor Mutsuhito.
    The Emperor Mutsuhito is called the Emperor Meiji now.

                   Tsukiji (Fish) Market (Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market)
                   It is the largest fish market in the world.

 

                   Herbie Yamaguchi,photos in London and Hamburg

                   Jazz café

                                  Ginza, Tokyo

                   Metropolitan Komazawa Olympic Park, Tokyo

                                  Setagaya Kannon (kan-non) Temple, Tokyo

                   Lou Reed  "Dirty Blvd."

                   

                   Requiescat in Pace

                                  Shinkansen (Japanese bullet train)

                   THE SINGERS UNLIMITED  "Here, There And Everywhere"

                   Sunset

                   Shimbashi, Tokyo

                                  Hair salon, Tokyo

                   Pacific Ocean, Chiba Prefecture

                                  Sangenjaya Station on Setagaya Line, Tokyo

                   Supermarket

   It's now the rainy season "Aki-same" in Japan.

   サミットストア　第１号店
　　 本日、10月6日をもって閉店しました。

 

                   Tommy Emmanuel  "Mombasa"

                   Vending machines

                                  Royal Copenhagen

                   Shimbashi, Tokyo

                                  Shimbashi, Tokyo

                                  Royal Danish Embassy in japan

                                  Canned coffee

                                  Today is a holiday in Japan.
                                  But a typhoon is passing through Japan.

 

                   Anabel Englud  "The Girl from Ipanema"

                                  The Imperial Household Agency, Tokyo

                                    Google Street View

                   The Imperial Palace, Tokyo

                                  Shibuya, Tokyo                            

                   Tractor

                                  Summer festival

                   The Imperial Palace, Tokyo

                   Google Street View

                   Ha-shima (Gunkan-jima), Nagasaki Prefecture

                      shima (= jima) = island

                       
                      Google Street View

                   The last day to abandon the lsland, 1974

                                  Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Japan

                                     Peace...

                   Rice fields

                                  Rice field

                                  Hikawa Jinja in Shibuya, Tokyo

                                  Jinja = Shinto Shrine
                                  Shinto is the traditional folk religion of Japan.

                   Daikanyama (Daikan-yama), Tokyo

                                  In a dream

                   INOUE Yosui  "Shonen Jidai" (Childhood)

                                  Shibuya, Tokyo

                   Naka-meguro Station on Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line

                                  An alley in Sangenjaya, Tokyo

                   Metropolitan Expressway Ohashi Junction, Tokyo

三軒茶屋中央劇場 6 Sangenjaya Chuo Gekijo 6

   Sangenjaya Chuo Gekijo closed its 60-year history on February 14, 2013.
      Chuo Gekijo = Central Theater

 

   三軒茶屋中央劇場は、2013年2月14日、60年の歴史に幕を閉じました。

 

   The photograph in the movie theater