Winter sky, Tokyo

                   The Imperial Palace, Tokyo

                   MojoSpin  "Happy Xmas"

 

                   Happy holidays to you all!

                                 Marunouchi (maru-no-uchi), Tokyo

                   "La marche des rois" (March of the Kngs)

 

                   Les Colibris & Nathalie Lemoye

                                  Marunouchi (maru-no-uchi), Tokyo

 

 

                   "Gesù bambino" (When Blossoms Flowered 'mid the Snows)
 

                     Duet by Emma Baker & Richard Noel

                   Katherine Bellafiore Sanden  "We Three Kings"

                   Tonus Peregrinus & Antony Pitts  "We Three Kings of Orient Are"

                   Tokyo Station Marunouchi (maru-no-uchi) North Gate

                   The View from Tokyo Station Gallery

                                  TOKYO STATION GALLERY

                                     Marc Chagall: The Third Dimension

                                 Tokyo Station Maru-no-uchi North Gate

                                 Tokyo Station Gallery

                   Ceremony of the Presentation of Credentials

                   from Tokyo Station to the Imperial Palace, December 11, 2017

 

About Ceremony of the Presentation of Credentials

(quoted from the Imperial Household Agency website)

 A newly appointed foreign ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary presents his/her credentials to His Majesty the Emperor.

 A horse-drawn carriage or automobile owned by the Imperial Household may be provided to the Ambassador and his/her party for transportation to and from the Imperial Palace.

                   The Tokyo Station Hotel

 

                   The Tokyo Station Hotel Website

                   The Tokyo Station Hotel (Forbes Travel Guide)

                   The Tokyo Station Hotel (Small Luxury Hotels of the World)

 

                   Tokyo Station

 

 

                   Tokyo Station

                   Persephone's Bees  "Sleigh Ride"

                   Otemachi (Ōtemachi), Tokyo

                   Ishi-yaki Imo Stall, Tokyo

 

                   ishi-yaki imo = stone baked sweet potato

                      ishi = stone,  yaki = baked,  imo = sweet potato

 

                   The Ginkgo Avenue with the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, Tokyo

                   It was just during the Ginkgo Festival.

                   Akasaka-mitsuke, Tokyo

                   Café, Tokyo

                   TOGO Seiji  "Violet"  1952  Oil on canvas

                   The 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Seiji Togo
                   A Retrospective of Togo’s Depiction of Women : Lyricism and Beauty

                   Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo

                   TOGO Seiji  "Surrealistic Stroll"  1929

                   Movie - City Lights

                   Music - Eternally (Terry's Theme from Limelight)

 

                   Charlie Chaplin  "City Lights"

                   Shinjuku, Tokyo

                   Shinjuku, Tokyo

                                In an office building on Sunday, Tokyo

                   Fuchu-no-mori Park, Tokyo

                   Fuchu (Fuchū) = Fuchu City
                   mori = woods

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            Tokyo Metropolis
                   23 special wards (former Tokyo City), 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages

                   A lonesome trail

                   Imagine you will encounter hooligans here.

                   Pacific Ocean

                   I was here (Google Maps)

                   Toots Thielemans  "Old Friend"

                   Vincent van Gogh

                   "Postman Joseph Roulin"  1888
                   "Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle"  1889

          Great Collectors: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

          TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
   American Paintings
          John Singer Sargent
          "Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel"   1903
          Washington Allston  "Moonlight"  1819
          Fitz Henry Lane  "New York Harbor"  about 1855
          Georgia O'Keeffe  "Red Tree, Yellow Sky"  1950

   European Paintings
          Jean-François Millet  "Knitting Lesson"  about 1854
          Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot  "Morning near Beauvais"  about 1855-65
          Claude Monet  "Water Lilies"  1905
          Claude Monet  "Antibes, Afternoon Effect"  1888
          Alfred Sisley  "Grapes and Walnuts on a Table"  1876
          Pierre-Auguste Renoir  "Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot"  about 1869

   Japanese Art
          OGATA Kenzan, Painted by OGATA Kōrin
          "Square Dish with Courtier Gazing at a Waterfall Design"  1710
          KITAGAWA Utamaro  "Young Woman Playing the Shamisen"  about 1804-06
          SOGA Shōhaku  "Transcendent Attacking a Whirlwind"  about 1764
          YOSA Buson  "Boating Under the Willows; Outing by the Hills"  18th century
          HANABUSA Itchō  "Celebrations and Festivities of the Twelve Months"
             first half of the 18th century

                   TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM in Ueno Park

                   Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

                   The National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park, Tokyo

                   Edgar Degas

 

                   "Dancers, Pink and Green"
                       1894
                       Pastel on paper mounted on board

                   Ueno Park, Tokyo

                   Which exhibition should I go to?

                   Ueno Park, Tokyo

                   Bentendo (Benten-dō) Temple in Ueno Park, Tokyo

                   J.S. Bach  "Piano Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052, 3rd Movement"

                   Polina Osetinskaya - piano

                   Anton Gakkel - conductor
                   The Mariinsky String Orchestra

                   Raymond Depardon Photo Exhibition

                   DEPARDON / TOKYO 1964-2016

                   CHANEL NEXUS HALL, Tokyo

                     Free admission!!

   

                   Ginza, Tokyo

 

                   The reason why I took a picture of CHANEL GINZA BUILDING is ...

 

                   CHANEL GINZA - Christmas in Ginza Tokyo

 

                   Well, I'm going to enter the building right now.

                   Ginza, Tokyo

                   Ginza, Tokyo

                   Pedestrian Paradise (vehicle-free street), Ginza, Tokyo

                   Pedestrian Paradise (vehicle-free street), Ginza, Tokyo

 

 

                   Touring Tokyo: Ginza

                   Tokyo Metro Ginza Station

                   Ginza, Tokyo

 

                   Ginza is one of the best-known shopping areas in Japan.

                   Chloë Agnew  "The Last Rose of Summer"

                   NERIMA ART MUSEUM, Tokyo

                   It's in a residential area.

                   NERIMA ART MUSEUM, Tokyo

                   NERIMA ART MUSEUM, Tokyo

                   It was very nice weather.
                   Can you find a bear?

                   Can you find a horse?

                   FUJISHIMA Takeji Exhibition: The 150th Anniversary of His Birth

                   The Artist's Words - FUJISHIMA Takeji (Bridgestone Museum of Art)
                   Do you know Bridgestone?  Bridgestone Global Website

     Gallery (Wikimedia Commons) - Landscapes
                   Fountain in Rome (1908) - Kagoshima City Museum of Art
                   Around the Campidoglio (1919) - Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
                   Sunrise over Mongolia (1937)
                   - Reimeikan, Kagoshima Prefectural Center for Historical Material
                   Setouchi Landscape (1932) - Museum of Kamei Collection
                   Morning Beside Lake Yamanaka (1916) - Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

                   FUJISHIMA Takeji

                   "Lady with Morning Glories"
                      1904
                      Oil on canvas
                      Private collection

                   FUJISHIMA Takeji Exhibition: The 150th Anniversary of His Birth
                   NERIMA ART MUSEUM, Tokyo

   Gallery (Wikimedia Commons) - Figures
                   Lady with Morning Glories (1904) - private collection
                   Summer Evening Beside the Lake (1897)
                   - The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
                   Butterflies (1904) - private collection
                   Orientalism (1924) - private collection
                   Woman Playing a Mandolin (before 1943) - The Asahi Shimbun Company
                   Dream (1904) - Yokosuka Museum of Art

                   Nude (1906) - Mie Prefectural Art Museum
                   Study of a Nude (1906) - Kagoshima City Museum of Art

                   Happy Morning (1908) - Sen-oku Hakukokan Museum (Tokyo)
                   Portrait of an Italian Lady (1908) - Fukuoka Art Museum
                   Black Fan (1908/1909) - Bridgestone Museum of Art
                   Woman of Ciociaria (1908/1909) - Bridgestone Museum of Art

                   NERIMA ART MUSEUM, Tokyo

                   Nakamura-bashi Station on Seibu Ikebukuro Line, Tokyo

                   Go to the left 130 meters.

                   Riley Taylor & Becca Esopenko  "September"

                   (Earth, Wind & Fire cover)

                                  Shibuya, Tokyo