New Year's Day and...
January, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan

View of Shinjuku, Tokyo Jan. 1, 1996

It became the routine for our family to spend a new year's day with my parents and my brother's family.Oshogatsu is another happiest occasion for our sons.

New year's eve.
My niece Aiko-chan, almost two years old,
recollecting 1995 at the end of the year.
NY65.JPG (18KB) Dec.31
Torii, a symbol of a shrine.
We can see these torii at the entrance
or the approach to a shrine.
NY32.JPG (32KB) Jan.1
Water for purifying before praying.
Water is falling from the holes bored
at the side of a bamboo pipe.
NY33.JPG (29KB) Jan.1
Southern God's Gate leading to the main
building of the Meiji Shrine. More than three
million people visited this one shrine during
the first three days of the new year.
NY72.JPG (43KB) Jan.1
Get together in front of a flower arrangement.
The lobby of the Hotel New Otani.
NY53.JPG (40KB) Jan. 2

Summer vacation 1995


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