Ohanami 2010

Its very typical Japanese ohanami(party or picnic under the cherry tree to celebrate the spring has come).（典型的なお花見スタイル！）
We ran into some kids group. They weren't shy at all. They tried to use some English to us and very excited to see some foreigners at Josei Koen.（城西公園で会ったキッズグループ。）

Nostargic Sakura

Kinda nostargic sakura pic. （何となくノスタルジック？）

Cherry Blossom around － サクラ 2010

Beautiful cherry blossoms were around in my town.

Cross Process Kochi Castle

Another crossprocess pics. This time, Its Kochi castle.

Cross Process ― クロスプロセス

Another Digi filter setting, crossprocess. each time to take pics are different.（クロスプロセスセッティングで撮影。撮る度、違う色になります。）

Colour Setting ― 色抽出

I was playing with colour setting. Mono with one colour setting is my fav at the mo. （一眼の色抽出でお遊び・・・。今のところ、このフィルターセッティングがナイス！）

Yellow setting

Tokugawa-En － 徳川園

Japanese garden, Tokugawa-en.

Pond
Waterfall

Nagoya Omotenashi Busho-tai ― 名古屋おもてなし武将隊

Now, They are very famous, Omotenashi busho-tai in Nagoya. It was really fun and cool to see them!

Jingawatai（陣笠隊）
Busho Dance（武将ダンス）
Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Kato Kiyomasa（豊臣秀吉＆加藤清正）
Maeda Keiji（花の前田慶次）Good looking!!
Maeda Toshiie and Tokugawa Ieyasu（前田利家＆徳川家康）
Tokugawa Ieyasu（徳川家康）
Hachimaru（はち丸）

Nagoya Castle ― 名古屋城

Nagoya Omotenashi Busho-tai（名古屋おもてなし武将隊）I will update their performance pix later.
Pink renger was in Nagoya castle,too! （ピンクレンジャーも参上！）
Statue of Kato Kiyomasa（加藤清正公像）
Its famous huge stone called Kiyomasaishi. One of powerspot like Kiyomasa well in Meiji Jingu? （清正石）
Each person who brought stones marked own symbols.（大名によって誰が持ってきた石かわかるようにマークがされています）

Kiyosu Castle ― 清洲城

Kiyosu castle is in Aichi, Kiyosu city. Oda Nobunaga used this castle for living and sometimes used for the main place for the battles.（清洲城は織田信長が本拠としていたお城。）

Statue of Oda Nobunaga（織田信長公銅像）
Sakura (cherry blossom) was full bloom in Kiyosu.（清洲城の周りのサクラは満開！）

Whale in the park.

There is a whale in the park near my place.

Ise Grand Shrine ― 伊勢神宮

Ise shrine is dedicated to Amaterasu-omikami, she is the top of goddess in Japan. I wanted to go there so badly. finally I could!
（伊勢神宮は日本人の神様、天照大御神を祀っています。前から行きたかったところで、やっと行くことができました！）

Gaikyu（外宮）
Naigu（内宮）

Gifu Big Buddha ― 岐阜大仏

There are 3 big buddha in Japan, Gifu biddha is one of them. Other two are in Nara and kamakura. This is 13.7m tall, face scale is 3.63m, eyes are 0.66m, Eears 2.12m, Mouth is 1.3m and Nose height is 0.36m.
（日本３大仏の一つが岐阜にあります。あとの二つは奈良と鎌倉。像高13.7m、顔の長さ3.63m、目の長さ0.66m、耳の長さ2.12m、口幅1.31m、鼻の高さ0.36m。癒されます。）

Busho in Gifu ― 岐阜の武将隊

I bump into Sengoku bushotai in Gifu when I visited Gifu castle. It was quite fun to look at. They performed the battle meeting when Oda Nobunaga was going to fight with Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Yoshikage which battle called Anegawa no tatakai.
(岐阜城に行ったら、ちょうど岐阜武将隊のパフォーマンスを見ることができました。織田信長が浅井長政、朝倉義景と戦う（姉川の戦い）の軍議の寸劇でした）


Give a shout of victory!（かちどきをあげろ～。えいえいおぅ～！！）

To people who don't know about Japan well. There is no samurai like these guys in Japan anymore. so please feel safe to come to visit here. :) This was just a performance.