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Japanese cemeteries

by Robert Sullivan   

Nippori's Yanaka Cemetery

Nippori's Yanaka Cemetery
I just love hanging around Tokyo's cemeteries -- not for any ghoulish...

Redemption

Redemption
Yanaka Cemetery is one of the biggest I have seen in Tokyo, and is mostly...

Gravestone

Gravestone
Graveyards are a big deal to Japanese -- ancestor worship is almost a...

Kanji - Chinese characters

Kanji - Chinese characters
The good thing about living in Toyko is that you could live here 20 years and...

Cat

Cat
One of the many cats which have staked out a claim here.

Graveyard Sunset

Graveyard Sunset
A grave sunset in Nippori's Yanaka Cemetery.

Strange Aesthetics

Strange Aesthetics
More wierd Japanese landscape aesthetics.

"Haka" -- Grave

"Haka" -- Grave
The character which means "grave" in Japanese, pronounced as either...

More Writing Carved Into Stone

More Writing Carved Into Stone
More Japanese writing carved into stone and given a moss-green treatment.

Stone Gods

Stone Gods
Near the cemetery, this is a temple in Nippori, captured on film on June 26,...

Buddhist Buckets

Buddhist Buckets
In a Nippori temple/cemetery. June 26, 2003.

Flower

Flower
Flower highlighted against the backdrop of a temple on Nippori Hill, near my...

luminescent

luminescent
The Luminescence of Winter in Japan -- Yanaka Cemetery, December 2 2003. More...

Cherry Blossom Season

Cherry Blossom Season
I returned to Yanaka in early April 2004 -- it was the cherry blossom season!

Spring Afternoon

Spring Afternoon
The Buddhist name markers with pink blossoms behind.
article published 5/24/2003
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Great Pictures
Nicely done! I am visiting Japan soon and want to photograph cemetaries. Will the Japanese have a problem with a foreigner taking photographs in a cemetary? Can you suggest which cemetaries you have visited that may be best to photograph?
— Stephen in California, August 31, 2007
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