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Tourists in Kyoto

Posted on 12.31.17 under Kyoto

The Shinkansen has a brief view of Mt. Fuji on the way to Kyoto.

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It’s like cosplay near Kiyomizu-dera. Busloads of tourists, mostly Asian start unloading from late morning.

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We went to pray for Junko’s mother who passed on December 29, 2005 and is interred at Otani Hombyo. Junko’s grandmother is interred there, too.

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The founder of this sect lived in this cave. This is the entrance.
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And this is how it looks from the top.

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From that cave to the current temple is quite a distance in time and expense. Every person interred is logged in a database. Once uploaded, no one will ever truly die!

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And then it was 2018…
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the last jedi @ kabuki-cho

Posted on 12.27.17 under kabuki-cho

We liked THE LAST JEDI. It was watchable and enjoyable. Fun to be a tourist in Kabuki-cho as well!

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Invoke the Ghosts…

Posted on 12.23.17 under Fred Roster, Jerry Konanui, Maggie Robinson, Shereen Kanehisa, Uncategorized

Since early August, 4 important people in my life have passed…

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Knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door

(Photo by Peter T. Brown, Orgone Accumulator by Jesse Christensen)

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Fred Roster: sculpture professor at University of Hawaii, Manoa.

(Photo by Malcolm Wong)

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Jerry Konanui (with Duffy Chang and his wife Gladys at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel): the grand kumu of awa and kalo throughout the Hawaiian Islands and Pacific.

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Shereen Kanehisa: friend, artist, activist.

(Film still from FEAR OF FAILURE, produced, directed by Malcolm Wong)

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Maggie Robinson (with her twins Tim and Nat at their Punahou graduation): artist, curator, mentor

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Winter is coming…

Posted on 12.18.17 under aniani ku'i 'ai, blown glass, glass, glass poi pounders, glassblowing

Pound (ku’i) kalo

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or drink spirits…

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Or do both!

Got to get out of the house sometimes…

Posted on 12.13.17 under Anekona, aquaponics, maui

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After ten years, Christopher Dolder (a Martha Graham soloist) came back to the scene of the original lot. Starting with “grubbing” the land of cane grass and heavily pruning the macadamia nut trees, then grading the land in preparation for building.

But before construction began, Christopher left to teach modern dance at SMU. Talk about eclectic!

We did some work and then hit the road…

iao

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