PHOTOS

PHOTOS

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Highlight Pictures, August 12-30

**A map showing the major places I visited**

**August 14, Fukuoka: Mom and me at the Isaji home**

**August 15, Fukuoka: breakfast with Hiroshi and Kazuko**

**August 15, Dazaifu: woods above Tenman-Gu shrine**

**August 15, Dazaifu: the rock garden at Komyo-Ji temple**

**August 16, Hiroshima: with Hiroshi and Mom at A-Bomb dome**

**August 17, Kyoto: partaking of the holy water at Kiyomizu-dera**

**August 18, Kyoto: a bamboo forest in Arashiyama**

**August 18, Kyoto: cormorant fishing for ukai**

**August 19, Nara: Mom playing with the friendly deer of Nara-Koen**

**August 19, Osaka: Kurukuru (conveyor belt) sushi!**

**August 20, Takayama: monks chanting at the candle-lantern ceremony**

**August 21, Takayama: in the Japanese Alps**

**August 22, Mt. Fuji: with Thorsten at the summit**

**August 25, outside Nagoya: the Tagata fertility shrine**

**August 26, Nagoya: shabu-shabu with Barney's Hitachi hosts**

**August 28, Nagoya: Asada crooning at an upscale karaoke bar**

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