A Shinto priest surveys the crowds at Itsukushima Shrine as shrine maidens help visitors select Omikuji (fortunes written on paper) and Omamori (protection amulets/talisman).
Miyajima, Japan-2016年1月11日
Monthly Archives: January 2016
fateful lightening
A member of a Hiroshima based samurai performance troupe demonstrates his swordsmanship on a warm winter day/Miyajima, Japan-2016年1月11日
Household Songs: The Brief and Unremarkable Life of Joseph Clarence Strauss/IX
Coarse cobwebs, cradled in cotton,
divide sunshine and
smiling spies from a rambunctious band of
miniature moppets.
Skin, spinning in the wind,
grazes daffodil silk;
from two callow hearts, sharp auric arrows
are pulled.
sundry folly 