波来の地 tsunami arrived point

中野栄駅から真っすぐ仙台港方面へ。
On my way to the Sendai Port area.

statue of "tsunami arrived point"

The Disaster in East Japan Mar.11 2011

仙台東部道路(国道6号線)下、交通量の多い交差点の横断歩道を渡る。
A crossroad under route 6, heavy traffic everyday.

ことし8月下旬のこと。
Taken at the end of August 2012.

竹灯り bamboo lights

8月中旬。In the middle of August,

これが見たくて、仕事を早めに切り上げて、一番町四丁目商店街へ寄り道しました。

just wanted to see this view, I walked to the shopping street after my job.

ほんと、来てよかった。
I was glad to see these peaceful lights.

壱弐参横丁の入り口 entrance of Iroha Shopping Street

サンモール一番町内にある壱弐参横丁の入り口。七夕期間中に撮ったもの。

Iroha Shopping Street, midtown area in Sendai.

七夕写真2 Sendai Tanabata 2012 Part2

今さらですが、七夕写真つづき。(現像できてなかったフィルムが1本ありました)
Another Tanabata pictures.

残暑お見舞い申し上げます。
Is your country still hot now? If it is, take care of youself :)

洗濯 laundry

部屋干し
indoor drying

北仙台と堤町 around Kita-Sendai

railroad crossing with SL sign, but never seen SL running on this railway

7月中旬のとある日の夕方、

ふと思い立って、子どもの頃祖父母の家のあった北仙台界隈に出かけてみた。

One evening in July, I went to Kita-Sendai area.

北仙台駅から少し歩くと、
堤焼、堤人形...かつては焼き物の町として名の知れていたという、堤町。
おじいちゃん家の地面にも、こんな感じであっちこっちに陶器の破片が埋まってたっけ。
もうそこには他の誰かの新しい家が建っていたけれど。

Walking for few minutes from Kita-Sendai Station...
there's an area called Tsutsumimachi, the place known as the town of pottery in the past.
Also my grandparents lived there before.
In my grandpa's house, which do not exist anymore, I could also see broken pieces of the potteries buried in the ground like this.

an old tobacco shop

Umeda River

coming back to Kita-Sendai area

北仙台駅→堤町と周って、再び北仙台駅に戻ってきました。
昔とはずいぶん変わった北仙台駅周辺。
外見だけは昔とほとんど変わっていなかった堤町。

I came back to the Station from old Tsutsumimachi.
It changed a lot around Kita-Sendai Station, developing area.
Tsutsumimachi haven't changed so much, but my relatives were all gone.

時間の流れを感じさせる壮大な散歩でした。

I felt the passage of time.

すいか watermelon

今年初すいかは尾花沢産。

The first watermelon I ate in this summer.

今週半ばあたりから時折空気が秋っぽく感じるような。
もうそろそろ夏らしい夏も終わりかな。

I felt a little bit cool air outside this week.
Feeling of fall coming.
Hot summer is starting to leave from our land.

仙台七夕まつり 2012 Sendai Tanabata Festival 2012 (35pictures)

真夏の仙台といえば、毎年8月6日〜8日に開催される仙台七夕まつり☆彡

Summer is a season for Sendai Tanabata Festival ☆彡
Tanabata is celebrated in many east-asian countries includes China.

It's held in July 7, in many places in Japan
but in Sendai it's held in every August 6 - 8 based on Chinese calendar.



仙台駅ペデストリアンデッキより。
Looking above from the pedestrian deck near Sendai Station.

 アーケードへ。Inside the shopping arcade.

In Tanabata, we make wishes, write it down on a paper 

and put it on the bamboos or decorations like this.

(left: I wish the disaster-affected cities and the people's mental recovery.)

(right: I wish the people in Fukushima can restart their agricultural works.)

私が応援しているJ1ベガルタ仙台の吹き流し。
ちなみに、このクラブ名も仙台七夕由来。

This one was set by Vegalta Sendai, the professional football club in Sendai,
and its name "Vegalta" came from Tanabata story,
Orihime(female, star of Vega) and Hikoboshi(male, star of Altair) only can meet once a year, day of Tanabata.

こっちはGINZA TANAKAさん(スポンサー様)前の金の短冊。

Vegalta's sponsor GINZA TANAKA(jewelry shop)'s golden wishing paper.
(left: Everyone's happiness)
(front: Vegalta Sendai's victory!!)

ノーモア ヒロシマ、ノーモア ナガサキを祈っての千羽鶴。

Thousands of paper cranes wishing for "No more Hiroshima" and "No more Nagasaki"

August 6, 1945 is when atomic bomb was dropped to Hiroshima City and

August 9, 1945 Nagasaki City.

眼鏡屋さんの吹き流し。Decorations by glasses shop.

仙台名物なだけあって、笹かま屋さんや仙台名菓のお店は力入れてきます。
Sasa Kamaboko(kind of surimi, Sendai's special products) shops always decorate very beautiful and accurate one.

吹き流しを支える滑車たち。Pulleys for the big decorations.