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龍/ryuu/dragon

Posted by e. (New York, NY, United States) on 30 April 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.

Last bit on Japanese prayer ritual. When you get to the shrine, clap twice before praying. The first clap is to summon the gods. The second clap is to summon your ancestors.

Xu Fu was a court sorcerer in China during the Qin Dynasty who was tasked with finding the elixir of immortality. Eventually, he left to find it, and never came back. It was eventually revealed that he traveled to Japan, where he supposedly found the elixir.

This dragon is from the well at the the Xu Fu shrine/tomb in Shingu.

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Photo taken in Shingu, Japan on December 23, 2007.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. - Shawshank Redemption

We walk through our lives so focused on our daily tasks and griefs. It's important to realize that there is always hope, because without fail, there will always be a touch of color - in a hazy shade of winter.

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