Tonami Tulip Fair: Sayuri and I went to the Tulip Fair in Tonami (a little more than a 2-hour drive from my place) yesterday. These are some photos I took with my instant camera (called a “cheki” camera in Japanese) and scanned into the computer.
The first photo was taken from the top of a viewing tower and the image on the ground behind us is entirely made up of tulips. It is the 60th anniversary of the fair this year, hence the giant “60.”
We really lucked out with the weather, but I think I’m a bit allergic to tulips. My eyes gradually got more itchy and dry the longer we were there, and in the tulip museum building there was a room that smelled so strongly of tulips I couldn’t even enter it. Once we got back in the car and headed home, however, I felt okay again.
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My name is Lawrence Denes.After spending 5 years studying Japanese language, culture, literature, and history in St. Louis and Kyoto, I now live in Japan full-time, in a town that most Japanese people have never even heard of, lost amid the rice fields and vending machines.
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