飲み屋街の猫 chat de bistorts

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It must be a free cat which keeps a few taverns. It is wating its friend cat which is belong to an old woman of a tavern.

(@西荻南３丁目、Nishiogiminami, Suginami ward)

寒いなあ froid

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The man who has walked out the Tamachi station shivers with the cold wind and air.

(田町駅、芝浦３丁目、Shibaura, Minato ward)

ほにゃららら vacillation

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The surface of the water around the Moshio bridge(藻塩橋) vibrates with the image of the reflection of the buildings.
the namde of the bridge, Mo-shio (seaweed-salt) comes from the salt farm in the Edo era burned seaweeds to leave salts.

(@芝浦３丁目、Shibaura, Minato ward)

整列 alignement

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After I finish my lunch box, these birds perch on the fence to watch me with their left eyes.

(@芝浦三丁目、Shibaura, Minato ward)

トレーラーの頭 camion-tracteur

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A trailer truck without trailer makes me imagine the Chirist without the cross.

アンミツ An-mitsu

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An-mitsu (sweet red beans paste - sugar syrup)is a bowl of Japanese fruit parfait. Under the fruits there lie cubes of Japanese gelatine. It's sweet and delicious. Japanese girls and women have loved this sweets but these days they have prefered icecream to the traditional one.

(花麺、パールセンター、阿佐谷南１丁目、Asagayaminami, Suginami ward)

ゆりかもめ goeland

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I sit on the bench to have a lunch box. This seagul hovers in front of me. I rememver the seaguls of Redondo Beach in L.A. They always gathers around me with wating for my throwing the bagles of the yesterday. But none of them would request the food like this one. I can have only half of the lunch box.

(@芝浦３丁目、Shibaura, Minato ward)

運河の緑道 promenade

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Shibaura is the reclaimed ground town so that they have a little plants for almost one hundred years after the construction. So the local gouvernment have thought to make green belt promenades along the canals. They call it "Green way."

(@芝浦４丁目、Shibaura, Minato ward)

芝浦４丁目バスストップ arret d'autobus

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Shiba is the old Edo town and Shibaura is the old Tokyo town which has been an area of stock yards and factories and which is changing to a residential area.
But the way of life of the both town have atmosphere which one could image the life and culture of Edo era. These old beauties would be as beautiful as M.M. in their good days.

(@芝浦４丁目、Shibaura, Minato ward)

芝浦橋から canal

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In the Edo era, the transportation with boat and canal was very important.
There were ten times numbers of canals than in Tokyo. The old canals have been reclaimed to become roads. Sometimes I miss those canals.
I like walking about the area of Shibaura Canal and bridges. Over there a monorail train runs from Haneda airport to the Hamamatsucho station.
But the canals in the area of Shibaura are new and broad. Those were constructed after Meiji era. In the Edo era, this area was only sea and beach.

(@芝浦４丁目、Shibaura, Minato ward)