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The Oriental Caravan's 

Postcard from Hiroshima 

- supplemental photos

return to main postcard from hiroshima

Kanpei! 
(courtesy of Bob Crowe)

Wooden funereal totems, Koya San

Megume 'Spectacle Bridge', Nagasaki. (courtesy of Bob Crowe)

Osore-san bus stop

Caravaneers in Matsushima bay

Altar housing self-made mummy, Tsuruoka

Inscription associated with the following 
bas relief (on the approach to Yasakuni shrine, Tokyo)

Bas relief commemorating the first Japanese airman to score a kill in aerial combat over Suzhou bringing down American pilot Robert McCawley Short

'O mile' marker
 on Nihonbashi bridge.
Used by mapmakers 
for measuring distances form Tokyo

Recruitment poster, Himeiji

Famous carving of a sleeping cat, Nikko

Japanese version of 'Big Issue'
 on sale, Kyoto

Hanayashiki Amusement Arcade,
 Asakusa

Bush and Blair's adventure in Iraq? 
Nope! This quagmire is actually one of Beppu's strange bubbling mud pools

Film posters, Rokku, Tokyo

'Arashiyama in the Rain' - read a translation of Zhou En Lai's poem

Well preserved hands, Tsuruoka

Fungi, Hiraizumi

Kunio in action
(courtesy Antony Helliwell)

Arashiyama, near Kyoto

Maiko Odori, 
Cherry Blossom Dance

Private riverside dining, Kyoto
(courtesy of Bob Crowe)

Three Monkeys, Nikko

Plaque commemorating Kyushu's historic 
first public telephone box

Shinto wedding
(courtesy of Bob Crowe)

Labrador with eyebrows 
(mouseover) - courtesy of Mark Besford 

Sony girl
(courtesy of Bob Crowe)

No smoking notice
(courtesy of Bob Crowe)