Sites of Kanazawa
These past few days my friend from University was visiting me, so we took the opportunity to play tourist and see some more of Kanazawa. There are just some random pictures from the three days. The first is fish drying in the Higashi Chaya (the Geisha district) that I thought looked really neat! The second is a picture of a room in one fo the Geisha houses. it was built over 185 years ago, and was considered one of the most luxurious houses in the area as demonstrated by the fact that it had two stories at a time that this was not allowed, except at places the Feudal lord visited a lot (okay, there were some excpetions, I don't know if that was the qualifications but I infer). The third picture is the main streen in Higashi Chaya-- the street is lined with contemporary as well as ancient Geisha houses. Apparently at night you can still see real Geishas (at least, if you have the relative wealth of the feudal lord), but sometimes they are in the street walking places-- they are people after all. The fourth picture is a gold leaf wall-- the wall is made of gold and is the only outer gold wall in the world!! (99% of Japan's gold leaf is made in Kanazawa!). The last picture is just me with a traditional wooden umbrella. One of the last people in Japan who still makes the umbrellas lives here in Kanazawa, and he made this one. It cost approximately $300 to buy, but we posed with it free at the Samurai rest house!
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