It’s finally starting to warm up around here.

I love this place.

A little shrine to pray for safe childbirth.

Update: This was demolished in March a week after I took the photo.

At the Tamura print shop, Kyoto.

Part 1, mostly the area around Manshu-in Temple in  Sakyo-ku.

Michael Lambe of Deep Kyoto has been writing for a few months on a shortsighted scheme under way in Kyoto City, selling off part of Umekoji Park near Kyoto Station to Orix Corporation to build an aquarium. Today he has a guest column on the Japan Today website.
There are many reasons why Kyoto doesn’t need an aquarium, starting with the fact that there is already a large, well-known aquarium in neighboring Osaka, WHICH IS A PORT CITY where an aquarium makes some sense. Kyoto Prefecture’s port is far away beyond …