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My work took me to a meeting of the japanese Language Task Force in Tokyo, working on an English summary of JIS-4051, on how to typeset Japanese.

Title: Tokyo

Author: Quin, Liam R. E.

Date: 2007

Total items: 172

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[picture: Alley]

Alley

Tokyo is a city of contrasts; the old and the new are everywhere intermixed.

[picture: Temple door]

Temple door

A stone inscription in Tokyo. What does it mean? I do not know.

[picture: Tokyo tower]

Tokyo tower

I turned around and there it was.

[picture: Street sign and lines]

Street sign and lines

The streets in Japan do not have names, only numbers.

[picture: The cart]

The cart

I don’t yet knnow the name for this cart with its pieces of paper.

[picture: Guardian temple lion on the other side]
[picture: Golden Head in a Shrine]

Golden Head in a Shrine

A dragon’s head, maybe?

[picture: Line of trees 1]

Line of trees 1

A line of trees by the side of the road.

[picture: Before the ceremony]

Before the ceremony

A group of people discussing (I imagine) the procession they were about to start.

[picture: Gray-green building]

Gray-green building

Interesting colours and textures on a Japanese building, looking incongruous near the newer towers.

[picture: Lantern]

Lantern

A lantern in a doorway, for the day’s festival. I am not sure what festival it was, since every shrine or temple, and sometimes even different households, have their orn festivals. [more...]

[picture: Procession 3]

Procession 3

Carrying the mikoshi out onto the street. You can see the phœnix (the hoo) on the top of the mikoshi. [more...]

[picture: Mikoshi 1]

Mikoshi 1

A closer view of the whole mikoshi.


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Tokyo

My work took me to a meeting of the japanese Language Task Force in Tokyo, working on an English summary of JIS-4051, on how to typeset Japanese.


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