Shoko, Jennifer, Brett, and Ken. We (Shoko, that is) drove 3 hours south to the main southern island of Kyushu to see an exhibition of an artist that Shoko loves that was showing at the Kyushu National Museum, which is, by the way, an amazing building. Brand new last year and just acres of space inside the large dome-like interior. The featured artist's name is Itoh Jakuchu (1716-1800) and the man could paint. Unfortunately I couldn't get an original otherwise I would've scanned it and posted it. Incredibly vivid and confident paintings of nature, mainly.... tigers, cranes, and roosters being his specialty.
After the museum, we went wandering about in Dazaifu which has a nice big shrine with tons of people. As I watched all the people bustling about the ancient temple grounds, I remarked wistfully to Brett, "Imagine what this place would've been like a thousand years ago..." And Brett said, "yeah... all trees". Smartass.
The fattest plum blossoms I'd ever seen. I was one of the millions under that tree taking photos.
This very energetic 65-year-old man and his monkey act. When he took his hat off to bow to the crowd we could see he had bright green hair. His shirt said in big letters across the front: "Every day is hell".
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