Is it cheating to post one of my own pictures from over a year ago? I've used Flickr for a long time now, it was really a great help in Japan. My family, excluding my sister, isn't very tech-savvy, but most of them can look at a web page. So before I left I opened the account and bookmarked my gallery on all their computers. Then all they had to do was check it every few days to see what new pictures I'd put up. And I took a -lot- of pictures....so many in fact that I purchased a paid account for a while, because if you post over several hundred a month they start trying to restrict you. ; ) I'm not paying for the account anymore, so most of my Japan pictures are archived, but I managed to save the ones of my favorite city, Uji.
The last ten chapters of Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji take place in Uji, so there are lots of attractions in the city related to it (though the city is also known for it's tea and the World Heritage site Buddhist temple, Byodo-in. This statue commemorates the Uji chapters of Genji, and depicts the character Ukifune and one of the two men that loved her - I forget which. The entire book is a spider web of relationships anyway! Anyhow, I always really loved this statue and the nearby one of Murasaki herself, as they somehow depict the flowing layered robes of the Heian period in -stone-. It's pretty neat.
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