Sendai ---Arahama

May   2012    House foundations

And then, only foundations remain...

Sendai ---grass grown

May  2012    grass-grown


There was a house,　a snug house...probably

Sendai ---epitaph

April  2012    a epitaph


A family of six...rest in place

Ishinomaki ---Koinobori

May   2012       Koinobori/carp streamer

for the  Boy's Day  holiday in japan.


It is written on the ground..."Let's reconstruct !"

Ogatsu ---weeds

May  2012   weeds


Plants named "weeds"....What is your real name?

Sendai ---cool breeze

May  2012   cool breeze 

The central area of SENDAI, a cool breeze of May was blowing,

...A semi-stricken area

Sendai ---fest

July 2011   Sendai  "Rokkon-Sai"

Roku=six, Kon=soul, Sai=fest, In 2011,  a distant memory...

Natori ---pine trees

April 2012  Pine trees 


BOUSA-RIN / Trees planted to arrest shifting of sand

Ogatsu---sunny day

May  2012   It is a sunny day

Good day sunshine,  Breeze is nice , Green is nice too...

Souma ---fish market

May  2012    SOUMA-HARAGAMA fish market

....not yet

Souma

May 2012   Trees and a broken house

SOUMA is nice place,  SOUMA was nice place...

Ishinomaki ---elementary school

May 2012　 OKAWA　Elementary School

THe school has hills at the back, If.....

Natori

April 2012     mute swan

where did you come from ?  Why are you here ?

Ishinomaki ---Okawa

May 2012    Gas station

The KITAKAMI-river is near, "Okawa Elementary School" is very near

Natori

April 2012  　 GAREKI/debris　


It seems like a hairy caterpillar,  a gigantic...

Ogatsu

May 2012 　At the back of "OGATU Elementary school"   


14 months after... in spite of...

Natori

April 2012　　A iron fence, tree & broken house 

On the east side of SENDAI Airport

Ishinomaki

May  2012    statue of liberty 

Made of plastic!