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Temple Gates with striped walls
Yonago Temple Town, with 9 temples side by side.
Most walls had been destroyed during the earthquake in 2001.
Many walls have wooden boards now, some seem sujibei 筋塀.
I just line up the photos I got from my visit in May 2008.
Plain white wall
Discussion about 5-banded walls
PMJS: Premodern Japanese Studies
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5/21/2008
Temple Walls
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蝶の羽のいくたび越ゆる塀の屋根
choo no ha no ikutabi koyuru hei no yane
butterfly's wings -
how many times do they flit
over the roofed wall?
Matsuo Basho
Tr. Ueda
夏みかん土塀に溢れ城下町
natsumikan dobei ni afure jookamachi
summer tangerines
overflowing the mud walls
of the castle town
Kitasato Senju 北里千寿
natsumikan are a speciality of the castle town of Hagi 萩, Yamaguchi.
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MORE about castle towns
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walls of Japanese homes
kabe 壁 wall
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tsuijibei 築地塀 Tsuiji wall
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https://haikutopics.blogspot.jp/2006/05/berlin-wall.html
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