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Dec 14 2012 12 Comments

A kimono wearing girl’s wishes

What she wrote is a mystery. Equally unknown is whether it will come true or not. But what is certain is that she was giving it a tremendous amount of thought.

Shichi-Go-San

Categorized: Culture, Photography, Religion

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  1. Ed says

    12/14/2012 at 1:39 pm

    … and the person on the right was spying at her.

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    • Lee says

      12/14/2012 at 6:03 pm

      Yes. Pretty brazen about it too. Not that I can comment of course!

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  2. Hans ter Horst says

    12/14/2012 at 4:44 pm

    Lovely facial expression of the girl and funny to see the woman on the right monitoring the whole thing ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • Lee says

      12/14/2012 at 6:05 pm

      Yeah, completely lost in thought. Same here. The other woman amused me with her nosiness!

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  3. winnie says

    12/15/2012 at 8:47 am

    Nice shot! I love the girl’s expression. So cute!! ๐Ÿ™‚
    Did she know the lady on her left is looking on her Ema?

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    • Lee says

      12/15/2012 at 3:57 pm

      Thank you!

      I don’t think so. She was completely engrossed in writing.

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  4. Willy says

    12/15/2012 at 3:34 pm

    I hope she is wishing for a decent government!

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    • Lee says

      12/15/2012 at 3:59 pm

      Sadly all the wishes in the world couldn’t bring that about at the moment…

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      • Hans ter Horst says

        12/15/2012 at 4:17 pm

        The original Athenian Democracy had one thing right: if a person wanted to run for office he was automatically disqualified. ๐Ÿ™‚
        My wife is allowed to vote, last time she voted DPJ as they promised change but after they turned out to be just as incompetent as the LDP, there is simply not a party deserving a vote, she tells me. I read “Straitjacket Society: An Insider’s Irreverent View of Bureaucratic Japan” by Masao Miyamoto and, although it is 17 years old, it describes that the power in Japan is held by the bureaucrats and indeed one of the promises of the DPJ was to break the power of the bureaucrats. The failed miserably, but kudos for trying. See here for the book: http://www.amazon.com/Straitjacket-Society-Insiders-Irreverent-Bureaucratic/dp/4770018487

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        • Lee says

          12/15/2012 at 4:30 pm

          Cheers for the link. Sounds like an interesting read.

          Sadly I can’t disagree with your wife. There’s a depressing lack of choice. Or at least a choice that could actually change things for the better. Not having a vote often frustrates me, but this time I don’t think I’d cast one even if I had the chance. A sorry state of affairs for sure…

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          • Willy says

            12/15/2012 at 9:31 pm

            It seems that the older a ‘democratic’ country gets, the more and more redundant its governmental system becomes. Would be good if someone could come up with an antidote for that. Or any other aging process for that matter…

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            • Lee says

              12/16/2012 at 11:24 am

              Yes, and something Japan is desperately crying out for.

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