tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post8684473644511858172..comments2024-03-27T18:23:34.322+08:00Comments on WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE: The modern and traditional - both in Tokyo (photo-essay)YTSLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-91337483583175172712011-10-08T23:28:05.256+08:002011-10-08T23:28:05.256+08:00Hi Trekcapri --
Thanks for not restricting yourse...Hi Trekcapri --<br /><br />Thanks for not restricting yourself to my Photo Hunt entry and checking out my other posts. Am glad you enjoyed them -- and yes, there will be more Japan-centric posts to come. :)YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-1677053475094449932011-10-08T19:07:47.261+08:002011-10-08T19:07:47.261+08:00Hi YTSL, I have enjoyed reading your posts from yo...Hi YTSL, I have enjoyed reading your posts from your recent trip to Japan. I would love to visit someday. I would find it so interesting to see the mixture of modern and traditional. Thanks so much for sharing both your photos and experiences.Trekcaprihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00104236389771077449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-883081278892338822011-10-05T22:08:15.314+08:002011-10-05T22:08:15.314+08:00Hi baroness radon --
Hmmm... I think the function...Hi baroness radon --<br /><br />Hmmm... I think the functional traditional *can* be found in the US -- on its east coast and in the south. But I also know what you mean by many places having become mere museum pieces.<br /><br />Re Sensoji: there's been a temple at the site since 628 AD but many of the larger buildings were actually constructed after the second world war as the older YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-7649714618419540962011-10-05T06:24:17.006+08:002011-10-05T06:24:17.006+08:00I had that same sense of traditional and modern wh...I had that same sense of traditional and modern when I was in Shanghai a year ago. Maybe you only get that in old cities...in the US, it seems like all the traditional gets destroyed for modern...whatever traditional was anyway. Where there is something tradtional, like Colonial structures, they are just museum pieces, not functioning in any way.<br /><br />You're making me want to go to baroness radonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14593108634484542286noreply@blogger.com