The Heart of River Cam

Changing the Guard@UK

seanchens — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:03:21 +0000

The Changing the Guard ceremony takes place in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace at 11:30 every day in summer or every other day in winter.

Before the ceremony, the royal mounted policewomen goes around and inspect, trying to keep the place in order.

The plice woman was busying in asking people to stand back, while tourists was teasing the royal horse.

I doubt that the guards could see the raod under the big hat.

Chrysanthemum Flower@TW

seanchens — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:22:45 +0000

Chrysanthemum flowers in Miaoli is a famous agricultural product in Taiwan. The follwers are manufactured for natural herbal remedy products and tea, which is one of the famous foods there.

November every year is the season of the harvest.

During this period of time, a lot of photographers and toursts go to visit the farm.

Of course, lovers go to visit there.

A leaf hat together with covering patterned with small floral prints is a feature of countruside in Taiwan.

These Chrysanthemum will be sent to a dealer for manufacturing.

Kyoto Arashiyama@JP

seanchens — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:37:27 +0000

Bamboo forest is one of the famous veiws in Kyoto.

In the forest, there are many temples for heath, love, hair growing….

Raccoon or raccoon-dog is famous in forest in Japan.

Famous people in Meiji-revolution. Sakamoto Ryoma was legend in Japanese history. He was one of the keymen to start the Meiji-revolution of Japan, which made Japan become modern country.

Sitting on a table coverd by red cloth and drinkng tea is a traditional culture of Japan.

Rice and green tea cakes.

Nara Palace。JP

seanchens — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:04:19 +0000

Nara palace site is being recovered by Janpanese government. The site is part of World Heritage Site “Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara”.

In fact, the area originally has a lot of farm land and there is a railway through the field.

The bases mark the position for future achitectures.

The wall was built used an old way.

Cherry blossoms in Nara.

By the way, this is the Nara’s mascot, Sento-Kun, is a mixture of a man and a deer. Some people think it is dollable, but more people like Buddhist socitey dislike it.

Nara。JP

seanchens — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:24:24 +0000

Nara was the old capital of Japan (710 – 784) 1300 years ago. In 784, the capital was moved to Kyoto. Tokyo become the capital since 1869.

The street in the Nara city center has some old stores.

This store is famous for its handmade rice cake, made of puffed rice by the traditional way.

The rice cake was still warm.

Besides old architectures, the most famous feather of Nara is deers. Is is said that deers were messengers of the God.

The stela with carved inscription of the donator and the amount of donation.

In Nara park.

Todai temple is one of the world heritages in Nara.

Todai temple in Chinese characters.

Photos of the students probably used for their class book.

Modern tea vs. conventional tea.

Ikeda@Osaka。JP

seanchens — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:02:51 +0000

Ikeda is a quiet and peaceful city.

Ikeda is at the border between Osaka-fu and Hyogo-ken.

Plain chain restaurant.

Small lanes.

Drying persimmons?

May Mountain.

May Mountain in Autumn.

On Ikeda Castle overlook the city.

Cherry Blossoms in Spring.

Red leaves in Autumn.

Fushimi-Inari Taishi@Kyoto。JP

seanchens — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:35:11 +0000

Fushimi-Inari Taishi in Kyoto is the general Fushimi-Inari temple, more than 40,000, in Japan. Taishi is Jinja, i.e. shrine or temple in English.

The architecture is the holy gate, representing a boundary between the land of the God of Sun and the land of people, and is usually seen at Japanese temples. The gates are found in the residential area in the mountain, whick look like that become a kind of decoration of the path.

The Fushimi-Inari God governs corns and foods in the world in belief in Japan.

The holy gate is donated by people to show their reverence and veneration for the god.

There are more than ten thousands of the gates in this temple.

Entering the holy gate and turn around (see from the direction of the god), you can see the donors’ names and date of the gates built.

Kobe Luminarie。JP

seanchens — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:01:47 +0000

Kobe Luminarie, donated by Italian Government, is a memorial light festival and held on every December since 1995, when there was a big earthquake near Kobe.

The earthquake killed more than six thousands of peope.

1995年的神戶大地震，震央在離神戶約20公里的淡路島(Awaji Island, Awaji-shima in Japanese pronouciation)，為規模7.2的淺層地震，超過6000人喪失生命。

Osaka Castle。JP

seanchens — Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:08 +0000

Osaka Castle is one of the three famous castles in Japan.

The castle is also a famous place to see cherry blossoms.

Cherry Blossoms@Yoshinoyama。JP

seanchens — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:34 +0000

Mountain Yoshino is famous for its cherry trees.

Mountain Yoshino