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Carola — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:53:00 +0000

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Carola — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:51:23 +0000

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Carola — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:13:48 +0000

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Carola — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:01:10 +0000

I’m currently traveling, but hopefully I will be able to post the photo’s I made in the past few weeks soon!

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Carola — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:45:45 +0000

At the Tenmangu shrine in Dazaifu. 6000 plum trees can be found on its grounds and they were all blooming!

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Carola — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:51:39 +0000

About 20~25 km south of Nagasaki, in Nomo, daffodils are already blooming now, in January.

Gunkanjima in the background.

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Carola — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:23:46 +0000

On January 13th Nagasaki was covered in snow! But surprisingly enough the street car is still going.

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Carola — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:22:03 +0000

The “Seijinshiki”, or “Coming of Age Ceremony” in Nagasaki. Whoever turned 20 in the previous year is invited and everyone shows up in their most beautiful (and usually very very expensive) furisode (kimono).

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Carola — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:04:34 +0000

One of the two heart-shaped stones in Nagasaki’s Glover Garden. Touch them and you will become happy in love… they say.

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Carola — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:26:23 +0000

And then… your pictures are in the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum!

From December 2nd until December 8th Nagasaki University’s photo club has a photo exhibition in the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum. More info here.

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Carola — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:01:45 +0000

Finally some momiji! And one of Nagasaki’s many cats.

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Carola — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:50:00 +0000

The yatai (food stalls) in Fukuoka.

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Carola — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:02:37 +0000

Taken on the same day as the previous photo. On our way to Unzen!

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Carola — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:59:07 +0000

An old street in Shimabara. You could also visit old samurai houses around this area.

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Carola — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:13:15 +0000

We spend a day at the island Ioujima, right off the coast near Nagasaki.

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Carola — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:07:16 +0000

Taken from the ferris wheel in Nagasaki.

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Carola — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:42:36 +0000

A video this time. Once again the Kunchi festival in Nagasaki.
Unfortunately Youtube ruined the quality of the video, and someone was blocking half of my view most of the time, sorry about that!

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Carola — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:21:58 +0000

The Kunchi festival in Nagasaki.

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Carola — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:32:36 +0000

Life in Nagasaki has started.
Will try to post more photo’s soon!

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Carola — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:31:07 +0000

I’ve been in Japan since September 3rd.

Yesterday and today I attended the VAMPS concerts Nippon Budokan. The shows were great!

008 : Gallery: Japan ‘08

Carola — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:49:53 +0000

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006 : Gallery: Japan ‘07

Carola — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:47:34 +0000

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005 : Gallery: Japan ‘05

Carola — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:46:46 +0000

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004 : Japan day in Leiden

Carola — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:04:28 +0000

Today was the Japan day in Leiden, as a celebration of 400 years trade relations between the Netherlands and Japan.

Butoh procession

More photo’s here.

In the afternoon, together with a Buddhist monk from near Hiroshima and a monk from Leiden, Japanese opera singer Aika performed a houyou (Buddhist memorial service) in honour of Von Siebold.

001 : Airplanes

Carola — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:26:03 +0000

You gotta love the crazy Japanese airplanes! By now I’ve got a whole collection of photo’s I took, mostly of Pokémon airplanes.