HIROSHIGE AND VAN GOGH

HIROSHIGE AND VAN GOGH
Read About Van Gogh's Secret Visit to Japan

WELCOME TO BLOGABOUTJAPAN

WELCOME TO BLOGABOUTJAPAN
IT WAS A SPECIAL TIME IN MY LIFETIME

APT WITH TATAMI MATS, a special time in my lifetime in Japan...

APT WITH TATAMI MATS, a special time in my lifetime in Japan...
Watercolor by R.L.Huffstutter

COMPARISONS IN ART

COMPARISONS IN ART
HIROSHIGE'S WORK ON LEFT, VAN GOGH'S ON RIGHT

YOKOHAMA PICTURE SHOW

YOKOHAMA PICTURE SHOW
Shot with my Petri in Yokohama 1962

RICE FIELD IN JAPAN 1962

RICE FIELD IN JAPAN 1962
I took this with my PETRI in Kanagawa Prefecture

Monday, August 24, 2009

PERFECTION IN CONTRAST BY PETIT IN TOKYO



Originally uploaded by PETIT™
I WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY I GOT OFF THE PAN AMERICAN JET THAT FLEW ME TO TOKYO IN AUGUST OF 1961. ONCE I WENT THROUGH CUSTOMS AND WAS OUTSIDE THE AIRPORT, I TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND LOOKED AROUND.

JAPAN. COULD I REALLY BE IN JAPAN? AMERICANS WERE THERE TO GREET US AND DIRECT US TO THE RIGHT BUSES. I WAS PUT ON A NAVY GREY BUS AND THE JOURNEY TO ATSUGI NAVAL AIR STATION BEGAN.

ONCE THE BUS BEGAN ITS JOURNEY THROUGH THE NARROW STREETS AND I SAW ONE UNIQUE CITY SCENE AFTER ANOTHER, I FELL IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT WITH JAPAN. PETIT'S PHOTO REMINDS ME OF ONE OF THE MANY SCENES I SAW THROUGH THE BUS WINDOW.

CHECK OUT PETIT'S FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM FOR SOME GREAT PHOTOS OF JAPAN. ROBERT L. HUFFSTUTTER, editor.........

.Uploaded by PETIT™ on 19 Aug 09, 12.09PM PDT

machi no akari kirakira

I LOVE CATS AND I LOVE JAPAN, THUS....THIS PHOTO HAS TOUCHED MY HEART IN A WAY I CANNOT EXPLAIN. THE LIGHTS IN THE BACKGROUND ARE REFLECTING SO MANY FOND MEMORIES I HAVE OF JAPAN AND OF THE CATS I HAVE KNOWN AND LOVED THROUGHOUT MY LIFETIME. A STRANGE COMBINATION, I KNOW, BUT WHO KNOWS OUR MINDS? THANKS TO PONKAN FOR THIS PHOTO. PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO SEE SOME MARVELOUS PHOTOS OF JAPAN...and more cats. Robert L. Huffstutter
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machi no akari kirakira
kyoto city, kyoto.

Uploaded by ponkan @machine troubled... on 18 May 09, 7.28AM PDT.