Tennoji

the weather had been pretty shitty for about a week so on the next fine day i decided to go for a wander around Tennoji. It's known as the bad part of osaka. lots of rubbish, homeless people, crime and of course with crime you get the underworld. I kind of like it. It has an old feel and there's a great walking course that takes about half a day, covering lots of temples, shrines and some old fashioned paved streets. I got miserably lost but luckily an elderly lady pointed me in the right direction.

tennoji temple (same as last post)

b&w treatment of japanese temple roof and afternoon moon.

shake here for good luck. You throw your
money in a tray and shake the rope three times
then pray.

nothing in particular i just love taking photos
of these on the roof. most temples have different ones.

some big orange doors at tennoji. They were about
3.5m tall.

another good luck thing. buy some incense, burn them, wave them aound
until they go out (if you blow them out it's bad luck). put them in the big
thing then cover your ailing body part with smoke. Mika usually puts it
on my head because she thinks my brain needs fixing.

a carp (koi) in a japanese pond at tennoji.