today i stumbled across a sweet market that sold all sorts of crap for people who owned restaurants...isles filled with pottery, tea pots, plates, sake cups, all individually painted and decorated, all GORGEOUS and all very cheap. if only i could carry more stuff! i ended up buying a sign that stall holders who sell tako-yaki use out the front of their stalls...haha, it has an octopus on it! and a teapot, from a bitch of a lady must i say, and just some food and stuff...it was fun! a welcome break from strolling around the covered malls here in namba, which are freaking insane!
and this all reminds me of another cool market i stumbled across in my last days in kyoto. it was a food market, branching off the famous terramachi shopping street - i remember the name because it instilled terror in me every time i went there - but this place was quiet, and cosy, filled with lanterns and dried squid. my favorite!
im definatly not made out for japanese city living. theyre very interesting, and beautiful none the less, but i feel the tension ease so quickly as soon as i get out of the cities and in to the country side. ill take some pictures of osaka i promise, because i am sure some of you are interested in that sort of thing. chris - my brother - would love it here, theres gaming parlours every three shops,and in all the suburban areas! lol
so today, i forgot my camera when i went to osaka castle, but im going back there tonight for a late night stroll...i went to go to the museum aswell but it was closed today. then, i came back here to drop off all my purchases and then went out again to a temple in the suburbs of osaka. it was quite quaint, with a beautiful park adjoining. a small crowd of japanese salary-men were filing around, following their little ritual, whilst local kids run about the shrine gates, throwing stones at the local ducks and rippling the perfect reflection of an orange bridge that leads up to the main temple complex.
yeah, thats about it. im having a very gai-jin day - gaijin means foreigner. kids pointing and geting up when i sit nexto them on the subway, grandmas stopping to stare. i think, but starting in the small towns and moving up i ruined myself. im not used to city people and getting pushed about. but the people here are very cool...im quite impressed with how naked these girls are with the temperature and all....
anyway, thats enough i guess...im gonna have a shower and head out to osaka-jo to take some photos...then tomorrow im going to the long awaited koya-san. its a large mountain temple complex, supposidly its snowing there. yay...ill rug up extra this time...
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