And So It Goes

Rat memorial, Shounji temple, Hiroo.

(A Buddhist memorial erected in 1902, honoring the souls of the rats who died in an anti-plague rat-eradication campaign prompted by an 1899 epidemic. Yes, some Buddhists apparently take the sacredness-of-life thing seriously.)

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- #Hiroo
- #rats
- #memorial
- #Buddhist
- #Tokyo
- #Japan
- #Hipstamatic
- #monochrome
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At Engaku-ji (temple) in Kita-Kamakura.

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- #Engaku-ji
- #Zen
- #Buddhist
- #temple
- #Hipstamatic
- #Japan
9 months ago
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Random shots found as I wander out and about the environs of Tokyo, just me and my Hipstamatic-equipped iPod Touch. All photos are mine, and none use Instagram-style post-photo filter processing: when I press the shutter, there's no turning back.

It's a throwback to my very first camera (which got as a gift when I was a child), a Kodak Box Brownie. It was the simplest camera imaginable, a dense Bakelite cube with a fixed lens and heavy mechanical shutter that used 120 film. I loved it. All photos are mineto