“My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”— Pablo Picasso How many of… Read More ›
Japan
Hiroshima-Atom-i-fied
Past Revisited: In August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber famously known as the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, marking the first of two times the bomb has ever been used in warfare. The death toll itself was… Read More ›
Miyajima Island- The Deer Outpost
(as it appeared in Tripatini.com) The spritely deer, nosing their way around on Miyajima Island 10 miles from Hiroshima in the Seto Inland Sea and a sacred Shinto and Buddhist site, are the closest parallel between this verdant Island and Sarnath,… Read More ›
Kinkaku-ji Temple (The Golden Pavilion) Kyoto
Kinkaku-ji Temple, “The Golden Pavilion”, breathtaking in its golden glory. Excerpt from my article Kyoto Japan – the Iconic Lady (All Ways Traveller) www.allwaystraveller.com/online ‘ Another luminous example of antiquity is the Golden Pavilion or Kinkauji from the period when… Read More ›
