Snapshots — Jan.12, 2024
Photographs taken during a short walk in Saitama, Japan.
I had some good light in a festive January shrine, so I took a few photos. In the lead photo, a couple is looking to buy an arrow or a rake. The arrows will strike bad luck and the rakes gather good fortune.
The shrine has a large selection of amulets, too. Academic achievement, business success, peace at home, safe baby delivery, and so on. They have wooden plaques with a dragon (it’s the year of the dragon btw), on which you can write your wish.
The New Year started very badly here in Japan with the Noto earthquake and the airplane collision in Haneda. I feel helpless in the face of something out of my control… I just feel fortunate here in Saitama where things are relatively quiet. I wish you all good for the New Year.
