栗畑 champs de châtaignier

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There are lots of chestnuts fields in the western Tokyo.
Sure. This hot Summer is leaving slowly and silently among the chestnuts trees.
(府中市新町、Shinmati, Fuchu city)

団子を食う Tanabata 2010-07

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The owner of the Eitaro, my favorite Japanese sweet shop, made a Tiranozaurus loving the dumplings.

(栄太楼、阿佐ヶ谷南一丁目、Asagayaminami, Suginami ward)

大きさならこれが一番 Tanabata 2010-09

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This is the biggest one. Everybody says themselves, “It's big. Only big but nothing.”

(阿佐ヶ谷南一丁目、Asagayaminami, Suginami ward)

取れビの泉 Tanabata 2010-10

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The name of this coin game is “The pond of Torebi”. I can understand “tore” means “to catch” , but no idea of “bi”.
A woman falls a ten yen coin for the glass in the water. If it successfully dives into the glass, she would get a piece of cookie. But the coin starts swimming in the water and lands on somewhere.
A clever young girl watches the adult woman doing. She announces this is very very difficult game for her and asks her mother to get other food for her.

(阿佐ヶ谷南一丁目、Asagayaminami, Suginami ward)

しま丼 bol de poisson

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The Shima-don(means probably “The Island taste bawl of rice ”. The cook explains how to make it. He dipped the slices of white fish meat in the soy sauce for one night and put them on the rice.
I've never had it. The appearance is not so beautiful. But it's very good. Especially in these very hot days.

(酔芙蓉、品川区西品川一丁目、Nishishinagawa, Shinagawa ward)

ゆずのシャーベット la glace d'yusu

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Every year on an Asagaya Tanabata Festival day, I enjoy the iced Yuzu ( a kind od orange) juice at the Cobu, a coffee shop.

(Cobu, 阿佐谷南一丁目、Asagayaminami, Suginami ward)

冷たい水だが l'eau froide

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At a car yard of a stock house a man starts to wash his big truck.
The water runs on the ground.
A couple of pigeons soon land down from the hiding place of the railroads bridge.
They drink the cold water for a long time.

(港南五丁目、Kohnan, Minato ward)

湾岸橋 le pont d'arc en ciel

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The Rainbow Bridge stands in front of me who stand in the shadow of a building.
Only the traffic guards stand patiently at their determined post in their road construction site.

(港南五丁目、Kohnan, Minato ward)

品川埠頭 quais de Shinagawa

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The temperature is over 35 degrees. No walkers are around me in the Saturday afternoon. I can find no worker in the yard of the Shinagawa wharves.

(東品川五丁目、Higashishinagawa, Shingawa ward)

港南柳景 l'osier

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Willow tree dancing reminds me a song of Stivie Nicks, « Gold dust woman ».
Deep in my ears, her voices repeat, « Willow, willow, willow ».

(港南五丁目、Kohnan, Minato ward)