sechan19 | Photos from Japan.

I've put together a collection of photos from the first week. These are mainly random shots of things I found beautiful, amusing, or intriguing during my walks and commutes. There are a number of images from the trip to Shinjuku Park that the school took us on yesterday, including shots of me and other classmates participating in Egg Races. There are also some shots of my room and of my little brother, Jeffrey.

Check it out here. FYI: Click on the first photo in the set to scroll through individual photos and read my explanations. If you watch them as a slideshow the descriptions don't show up.

In other news, I found out the other day that the Goto Art Museum, which owns some of the 12th century Tale of Genji Scrolls, will be showing those scrolls - as it does once a year - during a single week in late April. So I am very excited about the prospect of seeing these astonishing works. Seeing these scrolls, as slides in my art history course on Japanese art, is what made me want to devote myself to the study of this culture in the first place. Seeing them in real life will be like living a fantasy.