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Hakata Toumyou Lantern Arts Festival 
This year was the tenth anniversary of this event. It’s a favourite of ours, even though this year was only the third time we went out to see it. We hope these pictures suggest the pleasure of Toumyou Watching in 2002 and 2003. This year was a bit too wet for pictures…
New in November 2004
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Out along the rails
This introductory photo essay
will appear when we finish it.
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Ozasa is not just a pleasant place: it also offers a window on all sorts of trends and developments that continue to shape the contemporary urban world. This is a real accomplishment for a quiet community without its own video rental shop.
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Building, Building
After a break in the weather, the drills and cranes are at it again up the hill. Site preparation is underway for a new block of flats within sight and sound of my study. Without giving much outward sign of it, Ozasa is now in the throes of a housing boom.
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The Lay of the Land
Ozasa has changed a lot over the past generation, and it continues to change today. This essay briefly describes the layout of the neighbourhood, and comments on how it may be typical of modern Japan.
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The Space Between
An introductory essay on how Fukuoka’s history and geography have shaped the city’s settlement patterns and functions. Fukuoka is a ‘space between’: a transit point, and a point of translation from one people to another.
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These pages range further afield in Kyushu along the train lines leading away from Fukuoka. They include information helpful for travellers, and concentrate on interesting themes and events, and general features of the island’s history. |
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Hita and the Coffee Garden
In the summer of 1999 we came to Fukuoka on a scouting trip. About halfway through our stay, a friend of ours invited us on a car trip to visit Hita, in Oita prefecture. We came across a very nice little café and garden.
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Kushidagu: Kanzaki’s principal shrine
Kanzaki has a special place in our lives – it is our Japanese home town – and the Shigyo family has supplied the priests of Kushidagu for twenty-seven generations. This essay briefly glosses the history and significance of Kushidagu in Kanzaki.
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 Date posted: 2004-11-27
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