THE STONE LANTERN PARADE
2012年09月18日
http://www.ishiakari-road.com
This year’s evening event was the first time for me and it was a new and beautiful experience. Mure is on the outskirts of Takamatsu city.
The medieval Genpei battle site is also in the area and the ‘Genpei Trail’ is also here. This path offers visitors information on who did what in this pivotal battle and critical turning point in early Japanese history.
The Mure area as I’ve written in an earlier blog, famous throughout the country (and the world) for the granite stone quarried and cut around here.
Now the citizens of Mure town and the local authorities have developed a stone lantern walk, which is through a main street in the town and it has become an attraction to showcase the skills of the local craftspeople.
Information (in Japanese only) is available at the entrance to the walk and there is no fee, so if you’ve the notion to visit in the summer, it’s well worth a visit.
This year’s even runs through 8/4~9/17
I’ll be back with more in a week or so. Until then, enjoy the pleasant respite from the summer heat and feel the cooler air. Such a relief …
Until then, keep all those cards n’ letters coming in.
"Pat has lived in Takamatsu continuously since arriving here on a one year study and leave 1981. Originally from Tasmania, Australia, he was involved in education at a variety of levels including as a specialist teacher for children with learning difficulties, and at senior high schools throughout the state. Pat is employed full-time by the i-pal Kagawa International Exchange as a co-oridintaor for international relations amongst other duties including traveling to schools and giving talks in Japanese to kids about Australia. He has been involved with youth education exchanges between Japan and Australia for many years.
Pat has been many things in his colorful life including a seaman, helmsman, welder, carpenter, traffic warden, scholarship/studentship winner at the university of Tasmania, staff at the Australian Embassy in London to name but a few. Pat has far too many hobbies which include tennis, playing jazz flutes and saxes, riding bicycles with the Takamatsu Cycling Club all of which his long-suffering family tolerate. Recently he's become interested in painting again. His wife wishes he would put more time in to helping around the house and the garden which he artfully avoids ..."
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