MAM Day Eighteen – Mostly Japan

I’ll get to Japan in a moment but first…

Did you ever feel like you were running around like a chicken with her head cut off? I did today and then my ceramic chicken got her head knocked off – portentous and I knew just how she felt…well almost.

On to Japan and a few interesting juxtapositions.

I like the roof decorations- the little gnome, the fish which symbolizes resilience, perseverance and courage in Japanese culture (especially the Koi fish), and the decorative rooftop of someone’s home in the hills .
Three contrasting dwellings – top left , a place to camp overnight on a hilltop; top right a temple – home for the gods; and on the bottom a shack, maybe a chicken coop or a place just to keep the truck?
The sculpture is called “Northern Mother and her Child”. No idea why. The child is covering their face with their hands. Bottom left a beautiful manhole cover with birds and plants and fruits. And top left is a metal bird relief in a sidewalk at one of the airports.
Love the calligraphy etched in the stones. Mostly memorials but also just markers of various sorts.
A Japanese maple decked out in orange, the topiary is probably a cypress tree, and do you know what that fruit is? It’s a pomelo.

That’s all for now…

But I had to put in Momo because she’s on my mind. I have to put her down tomorrow…and anyway her name means peach in Japanese and many Japanese name their cats Momo.

Until tomorrow.

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