Saturday, 30 March 2013

Sakura Watch 2013 - Day 12

I chose a yae-zakura, a late-blooming type, and I swear one of the blossoms is sticking its tongue out at me!





Thursday, 28 March 2013

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Sakura Watch - Day 9

It's rainy and cold and miserable out, but the branch is just about to turn into a mass of pink!



Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Sakura Watch 2013 - Day 8

The branch waited for me! :D

Pink buds juuuust waiting to burst!



Tuesday Then & Now - Ueno Buddha


Here's another photo from the Nagasaki University's Metadatabase of Japanese Old Photographs... FINALLY not Nikko Toshogu!

In Ueno Park there is a plaque about the great Buddha that once stood there, with the Buddha's face mounted in stone.

March 2008

But it wasn't always just a face. Muzu-chan explains why very well, but this is what it used to look like: