While walking the streets there are many shrines devoted to Kami. One such Kami is that of a boar that save a guy's life. It was then enshrined and I actually had a chance to pray to the Kami, it was an interesting feeling. There were also many dogs around with no leashes. There was even one that had sunglasses and a pink fedora, it looked perfectly content walking through the crowded streets of Kyoto during the lantern festival! I have done no reading as of yet, but it is really interesting seeing the connection to nature and animals people here have
Hope you are having fun. Have you noticed anything about the eating culture over there? Like meat consumption vs veggies and such? Would just like to know if what we "know" about Japan is actually how it is. I mean I know you are going to more touristy locations, but just thought it would be interesting to see the similarities/differences.
ReplyDeleteAte beef at a Korean barbecue the first night and it was awesome! Last night (the 13th) we had beef also and it tasted pretty Meg even though it was higher quality. I have been eating a lot of fish, arthropods and even gastropods with veggies, very little beef. No chicken andwhat iI thought was turkey once. I would say from a food perspective, pretty much pescetarians. We also went to a fish market in Kanazawa which had so much crab it was nuts! All for over 30,000 yen a crab! It was really cool needless to say. And reflecting back on that (probably should make this a whole post...) I think it will be hard to go back to eating red meat. I still dunno if I can give up my general tso's chicken, but we will see.
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