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***KITSUNE at Asian Dreams ZEN GARDEN***
The japanese word for fox is Kitsune. According to japanese folklore foxes have supernatural abilities that increase as they get older and have the ability to shapeshift into human form. The more tails a kitsune has (up to 9) the older, wiser and more powerful it is. They symbolise cunning, intelligence and good fortune and able to trick others but they are also portrayed as faithful guardians, friends and lovers. We have a couple of kitsune watching over our japanese Zen Garden. Behind this sitting kitsune is a standing one with bamboo, available for you to purchase. He will guard over your lands and maybe even bring you some good luck VISIT HERE: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quinarius/136/195/36
Mount Kasa and Japanese rowan berries in late autumn
Location : Nakao plateau, Takayama, Gifu pref
ナナカマドの実と北アルプス・笠ヶ岳
中部山岳国立公園
岐阜県高山市奥飛騨温泉郷中尾
Shinjuku, officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world (Shinjuku Station) as well as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administrative center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. As of 2018, the ward has an estimated population of 346,235 and a population density of 18,232 people per km2. The total area is 18.23 km2. Since the end of World War II, Shinjuku has become a major secondary center of Tokyo (fukutoshin), rivaling the original city center in Marunouchi.
"Shinjuku" is also commonly used to refer to the entire area surrounding [ja] Shinjuku Station. The southern half of this area and majority of the station are in fact located in the neighboring Shibuya ward.
In 1634, during the Edo period, as the outer moat of the Edo Castle was built, a number of temples and shrines moved to the Yotsuya area on the western edge of Shinjuku. In 1698, Naitō-Shinjuku had developed as a new (shin) station (shuku or juku) on the Kōshū Kaidō, one of the major highways of that era. Naitō was the family name of a daimyō whose mansion stood in the area; his land is now a public park, the Shinjuku Gyoen. In 1898, the Yodobashi Water Purification Plant, the city's first modern water treatment facility, was built in the area that is now between the park and the train station.
In 1920, the town of Naitō-Shinjuku, which comprised large parts of present-day Shinjuku (the neighborhood, not the municipality), parts of Nishi-Shinjuku and Kabukichō were integrated into Tokyo City. Shinjuku began to develop into its current form after the Great Kantō Earthquake in 1923, since the seismically stable area largely escaped the devastation. Consequently, West Shinjuku is one of the few areas in Tokyo with many skyscrapers.
The Tokyo air raids from May to August 1945 destroyed almost 90% of the buildings in the area in and around Shinjuku Station. The pre-war form of Shinjuku and the rest of Tokyo was retained after the war because the roads and rails, damaged as they were, remained, and these formed the heart of Shinjuku in the post-war construction. Only in Kabuki-cho was a grand reconstruction plan put into action.
The present ward was established on March 15, 1947 with the merger of the former wards of Yotsuya, Ushigome, and Yodobashi. It served as part of the athletics 50 km walk and marathon course during the 1964 Summer Olympics. In March 1965, the Yodobashi Water Purification Plant closed and was replaced by skyscrapers in the following years.
In 1991, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government moved from the Marunouchi district of Chiyoda to the current building in Shinjuku (the Tokyo International Forum stands at the former site vacated by the government).
忘れられた物語：ここにはかつて命があった
(Wasurerareta Monogatari: Koko ni wa Katsute Inochi ga Atta)
La storia dimenticata: Qui c'era vita