Wajima- North of Kanazawa
There's a little town?village? North of Kanazawa called Wajima. If you refer back to the earlier map it's on the tip of the peninsula just above Kanazawa. They have a well-known morning street market. J-pop and J-ma bought several things at the market. I say "things" because I'm not sure what they were. This area is also famous for black lacquered boxes and utensils. The place where we ate lunch gave us free lacquered chopsticks! Near Wajima, is the head temple of the temple where we fixed up flowers for Tokuji-san's wife and for J-Pop's grandparents (see earlier entry). It was so quiet and peaceful inside the temple walls.
Inside the temple grounds.
The street market.
An old grandmother peddling her wares!
I love the fountains that are outside of shrines. Okay, you wash your left hand. Then you wash your right hand. Next you are supposed to rinse out your mouth with water from your left hand. You are clean! Proceed to the shrine!
The seaside of Wajima.
So you know how small of a village?town? Wajima is, this old lady is about the only thing that caused congestion. I have no idea why she was walking down the middle of the road. There were about 8 cars behind us.
posted by Jory-san @ 6:54 PM
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Beautiful! And (again) unusually clean by American standards, I'd say. But the teaming markets full of people are something you'd rarely see here, either. I suppose much of the need for cleanliness is related to how many people they have to pack in per square foot?
My son's learning to draw anime, and it's interesting (since it was born in Japan) to learn of some of the customs. He can only draw inexperienced children or gauche people with teeth because it's considered tacky to display your teeth in public. In fact, people in Japan used to black in their teeth to obscure them. Weird!
he wasn't using it at the time the old woman was in our way. however, we did use it a lot during this trip. and about the roads- think fort smith, arkansas. some roads seem thoughtfully planned, while many many others seem like alleys going every which way but loose.
Saur: yeah i think one reason they have to keep it clean is because of the population density of the urban areas. Where is your son learning anime? in Japan? in America? Why does he have to follow Japanese rules if he is in America? or is that something that allegedly defines the "anime" style?
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