These Walking Dreams: Day 1 (April 13, 2017)

Day 1 (April 13, 2017)

Map of Kagoshima Prefecture with author’s route between Kagoshima City and Kawanabe highlighted.

Posters of a man with text reading: Are you ready to laugh?

I am.

Ginkgo trees with fresh leaves against a pale blue sky.

A strangely chaotic house on a street corner.

A woman holds the hand of a child on a street lined with blooming cherry trees.

A Hummer H1 parked in a tight spot.

Another angle of the Hummer shows the huge car barely fitting in its parking space.

The Japanese love for small boxy vehicles expressed with a large boxy vehicle.

An old bicycle thrown into a river.

Looking down a river with a volcano on the horizon, Sakurajima.

Four pairs of shoes on the porch of a house.

An old man sits in a wheelchair in a park under cherry blossoms.

Portrait of a Buddha statue with a growth of lichen across its forehead and left eye.

The Buddha as Ziggy Stardust at the wonderful, 🌸-speckled gorge of Jigenji Park, where I walked out of Kagoshima and into the mountains.

A man washes his minivan in front of a garage with the volcano Sakurajima painted on its door.

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These Walking Dreams is a visual field diary of a 4,300-kilometer walk from one end of Japan to the other, in the spring and summer of 2017.

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