January 27, 2006

Kobe 3

These are pictures of a temple near my home, on the moutain behind Kobe:

These are shrines for "water babies", those who were miscarried or aborted… We have two of them up there. My Lucky cat, who died in Japan, is enshrined there too.

I’ve been using the OD tools to resize this series of pictures and it seems to distort them a bit….

This was either 1993 or 94….

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I read about the Mizuko Kuyo ceremonies in one of my Anthropology classes, but had never seen any of the shrines. I was always curious what they looked like.Blessings and Love,

like those fancy red skirts. heehee. ryn: yes, i do think traumas change you, but also grow you. i find a great deal of comfort in looking back to see how far i have come. though it does make me shudder to look back and see that much pain.

Ana Rose

January 28, 2006

RYN: That would be great! I’d love to know any kind of travel tips and info on Japan. Thank you very much. OD does have a tendency to warp the pictures when you resize them. I have to always resize mine before I even send them to Photobucket. Try changing the size before you post the pictures into Photobucket (or whatever place you use to store the pictures).