** Swim day takes place on Aircraft carriers during a down period while at sea-the crew loves it too. The carriers that I served on did the same thing. The highlight of the swim was jumping off the elevator into the ocean.**
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Taken @ the South Carolina State Museum, Columbia SC. It was the first total solar eclipse that crossed the entire continental US in 99 years. Also was on my birthday! Very cool & one of the most (if not the most) spectacular sights I’ve ever seen! At our location, totality was 2 minutes, 20 seconds. I shot this at about the 1 minute mark.
For this Friday's posting, here are the promised photos from this week's visit to Japan's Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo.
By way of historical reference, the site of today's Imperial Palace which houses the Emperor was once Edo Castle, where the Tokugawa Shoguns ruling Japan during the Edo period resided. With the transformation of power to the Emperor when the Samurai Period came to an end, in 1868 Emperor Meiji brought the royal court here from Kyoto where the former Emperors had lived for over 1,000 years.
The Imperial Palace is surrounded by a moat and 8 gates. Entry through one of those gates requires invitation much like a visit to the White House. One can submit application and a lottery is held for reserved tickets. In addition some are allowed non reserved entry after a screening process that includes submission of one's passport. On days when visitors are allowed, the number are limited to 300 in the morning and 300 in the afternoon. We fell into the later category and it helped that there was less competition due to it being a rainy day.
The Imperial Palace was rebuilt after its 1945 burning during World War II although an administrative building on the grounds that had been built in 1935 survived and its third floor housed the Emperor until the rebuilding was completed in 1968.
First pictured below are views of Fujimi-yagura, the Edo period Keep and then Watch Tower, that is one of the older remnants of Edo Castle.
Next is encountered the Imperial Household Agency Building which is the head office of the Imperial Household and is the building which built in 1935 survived to be able to temporarily house the Emperor on its third floor after the palace itself had burned down in 1945,
One of the most recognizable buildings of the Imperial Palace itself is Chowaden Hall with its balcony from which the Emperor is seen on TV throughout Japan greeting the public on New Year's Day and on his Birthday. Those invited for the ceremonies stand on facing Kyuden Totei (The Imperial Palace Plaza, analogous to the Kremlin's Red Square.) These photos capture the Palace and its plaza with an added screenshot of a past appearance by the Emperor.
Extending from the Imperial Palace's Chowaden Hall is a structure reaching toward Fushima-yaguru, a keep that is claimed to have been moved to Edo Castle from Kyoto by a Shogun in the early 1600s.
Just below Fushima-yaguru is Seimon-tetsubashi Bridge. Standing on this bridge and looking over its iron work side, my photograph pictures a larger bridge known as Meganebashi or Eyeglass Bridge. The double arches create an eyeglass effect, especially when reflected in the water.
Of note, these bridges and the Fushima-yaguru keep can be seen without having to enter through a gate into the grounds of the Imperial Palace - although from the outside looking in, rather from the inside looking out as in my photo.
Here are some selected added photos from within the gates and walls of the Imperial Palace. Note, in the first photo, the marking on the stone which represents a particular region of Japan. When the Edo Castle was originally built stones from throughout Japan were marked to identify their origin and brought to be a part of the castle to symbolize nation wide unity.
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More to come - Yesterday's visit to Japan's Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
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Taken @ the South Carolina State Museum, Columbia SC. It was the first total solar eclipse that crossed the entire continental US in 99 years. Also was on my birthday! Very cool & one of the most (if not the most) spectacular sights I’ve ever seen! At our location, totality was 2 minutes, 20 seconds. I shot this at about the 1 minute mark.
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For this Friday's posting, here are the promised photos from this week's visit to Japan's Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo.
By way of historical reference, the site of today's Imperial Palace which houses the Emperor was once Edo Castle, where the Tokugawa Shoguns ruling Japan during the Edo period resided. With the transformation of power to the Emperor when the Samurai Period came to an end, in 1868 Emperor Meiji brought the royal court here from Kyoto where the former Emperors had lived for over 1,000 years.
The Imperial Palace is surrounded by a moat and 8 gates. Entry through one of those gates requires invitation much like a visit to the White House. One can submit application and a lottery is held for reserved tickets. In addition some are allowed non reserved entry after a screening process that includes submission of one's passport. On days when visitors are allowed, the number are limited to 300 in the morning and 300 in the afternoon. We fell into the later category and it helped that there was less competition due to it being a rainy day.
The Imperial Palace was rebuilt after its 1945 burning during World War II although an administrative building on the grounds that had been built in 1935 survived and its third floor housed the Emperor until the rebuilding was completed in 1968.
First pictured below are views of Fujimi-yagura, the Edo period Keep and then Watch Tower, that is one of the older remnants of Edo Castle.
Next is encountered the Imperial Household Agency Building which is the head office of the Imperial Household and is the building which built in 1935 survived to be able to temporarily house the Emperor on its third floor after the palace itself had burned down in 1945,
One of the most recognizable buildings of the Imperial Palace itself is Chowaden Hall with its balcony from which the Emperor is seen on TV throughout Japan greeting the public on New Year's Day and on his Birthday. Those invited for the ceremonies stand on facing Kyuden Totei (The Imperial Palace Plaza, analogous to the Kremlin's Red Square.) These photos capture the Palace and its plaza with an added screenshot of a past appearance by the Emperor.
Extending from the Imperial Palace's Chowaden Hall is a structure reaching toward Fushima-yaguru, a keep that is claimed to have been moved to Edo Castle from Kyoto by a Shogun in the early 1600s.
Just below Fushima-yaguru is Seimon-tetsubashi Bridge. Standing on this bridge and looking over its iron work side, my photograph pictures a larger bridge known as Meganebashi or Eyeglass Bridge. The double arches create an eyeglass effect, especially when reflected in the water.
Of note, these bridges and the Fushima-yaguru keep can be seen without having to enter through a gate into the grounds of the Imperial Palace - although from the outside looking in, rather from the inside looking out as in my photo.
Here are some selected added photos from within the gates and walls of the Imperial Palace. Note, in the first photo, the marking on the stone which represents a particular region of Japan. When the Edo Castle was originally built stones from throughout Japan were marked to identify their origin and brought to be a part of the castle to symbolize nation wide unity.
No golf today…
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I believe this is called a sun dog. Took this picture in January.
