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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2002 |
 Yakitori
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Seifushinto
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Plains
Rice
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Bus-stops of the world
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Bus back
Yoko
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To station
Out of 60s- Blue moon & reggae
Diff to Hiroshima
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Climbed up to the castle, more to get the breeze than anything else. The
castle is the only one in the San'in region undamaged by war, and it's
certainly very impressive (although it did take me until I got right to
the top of the castle grounds to realise I'd been there before...).
Anyway, I spent ten minutes or so standing in the windiest spot I
could find, and then walked back into the town. I'd have looked around a
little more had I had a working camera with me; I'll come back sometime
soon with new batteries. What with the heat, too, I didn't bother
climbing up through the inside of the castle (even though I had a free
ticket), which is another reason to come back, I suppose- even though
I've done it before.
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18-point turn
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Train photo
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Nicely run-down
Sense of abandonment- eg beer garden
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Along Shinji-ko to jizo
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Pleasant for walking- breeze
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Cleared up- white waves gone
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Empty baikingu, natto
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I can't even have a day sightseeing (sorry, on a business trip) without
emails from the office. At precisely 8.32 an email arrived on my
keitai asking whether I'd be prepared to write the Keizai Shinju
article. I'd assumed I'd have a little bit more time to think about what
I wanted to write before committing myself...! The problem is that my
view of Hiroshima is probably not what the publishers want to hear.
Don't get me wrong- I love Hiroshima and the citizens of the prefecture-
but I'm not entirely happy with this 'International Peace and Culture
City' sort of branding. I get the feeling that this sort of view is what
is expected, though...
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We all know about the electric super-toilets in Japan; the ones that
squirt jets of water, warm the seat and double as a bidet. However- and
perhaps I'd just never looked closely until now- there's something odd.
Why is the symbol for the bidet a lady with permed hair? Is this some
secret feature we don't know about? Or just a (presumably unwanted)
side-effect?
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
soul castrates, pig ends
neatly, weakly, cesspool chases
lewdly, pear conspires
Absolutely. You can't trust pears an inch. Give 'em half a chance, and they'll stab you in the back just like that.
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© Copyright 2003 Nathan Duckworth.
Updated: 8/1/03; 8:19:55 pm.
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