Omikuji @ Fushimi Inari! DAI DAI KICHI... Who gets that!?!? None of my coworkers even heard of this before and they are native Japanese born and raised in Japan! Lucky lucky. I loooove omikuji...
I love Fushimi Inari and the rows of red gates!!! Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha! I wanted to race through them!
If you lift the stone and it's light your wish will come true... Needless to say my wish will definitely not be coming true...
The arrangement of the rocks symbolize Buddhist priests and their disciples... The big rocks are priests and the little ones are students... All of the rocks are facing the larger rocks in the back on the grass... Notice the smaller rocks are in the back (cause they're less influential)... So much thought going into this one garden! Amazing and very zen...
Just loved this...
Wooooo jump!
GION! (Where the maikos and geishas play) - This is the spot in Memoirs of a Geisha where Sayuri runs into The Chairman... I am slightly enamored with the book/movie as you can see...
Weird puppets...
MAIKO!!!!
Maiko drinking champagne and playing drinking games! They were sweet enough to teach me as well!
Maiko drinking champagne and playing drinking games! They were sweet enough to teach me as well!
I asked if the Maiko would dance... And probably should have just kept my big ole mouth shut as it was very sloooow... Kind of like a very very slow hula with Japanese guitars...
