Thursday, January 18, 2007
a little keeper
a little stone tied with bracken rope is sitting on stepping stones. he says “please don’t follow this path”. his name is sekimori-ishi (barrier keeper stone). most of japanese, including me until i saw him and ask my sisiter, don’t know what his name is or why he’s there…
how nice if we could replace all “don’t enter” signs to sekimori-ishi, don’t you think? :)
at a tea house in wakayama castle, wakayama, japan.
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i agree with you, i’ll go looking for some stone to create my first own “sekimori-ishi”.
i’m thinking to put a sekimori-ishi near the door of my office. (too tired on friday!!)
HOw lovely! I think I will crea6te my own also. Phil
But why is sekimori-ishi telling you not to follow him? What danger does the stepping stones lead to?
Lovely image.
manuel & [t e r r o r k i t t e n] » let’s spread sekimori-ish to the world. :D
Mike Dougan » there was another path to the left and i guess this was a private path?
you should tell “sekimori-ishi” that you may not be able to follow that path, but you will definitely keep taking polaroids of him :) love the tones here.
6oh » true! :D