by Isao deura | 5月 9, 2016 | Asakusa-Akihabara-Ueno, Cities and Towns
Obinzuru-Sama Spiritual site of Sensouji-Temple Complex in Asakusa A statue, called “Obinzuru-Sama”, is sitting on the pedestal stone in the posture of folding up right leg and left leg resting on a small pedestal down below in front of Daigyou-In prayer’s hall which...
by Isao deura | 5月 9, 2016 | Cities and Towns
My favorite rice cracker shop in Yanaka “Saganoya-San” has been my favorite rice-cracker shop in the neighborhood of my current residence in Sakuragi in Ueno in Taito-Ku where I had moved from Saku-City in Nagano Prefecture way back in 1950. At that time the founder...
by Isao deura | 4月 15, 2016 | Asakusa-Akihabara-Ueno, Cities and Towns
Do you know amphibious and supernatural creatures? It is said that an amphibious and supernatural creatures had inhabited in rivers or ponds or lakes in Japan. It is regarded as a transformation of a water deity. The name of the creature is “ Kappa”. Kappa looks like...