Precisely, it means cutting the grass and clearing up the roadways...
Autumn days in Japan is really, urmmm, pure delight....
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Sunday, October 07, 2012
Autumn cleaning at Aji Hamlet...
Every autumn, the residents of Aji hamlet get together for a clean-up of the neighborhood...
Precisely, it means cutting the grass and clearing up the roadways...
Took time out to snap a shot of two neighbors walking down the path after cutting the grass....
Most of the grass is hauled away to another location for disposal...
But the original residents of the hamlet prefer to burn the grass right there...
There is a law against open fire burning, but... oh well, I always thought to myself...
And today was such a lovely day spent...
Autumn days in Japan is really, urmmm, pure delight....
Precisely, it means cutting the grass and clearing up the roadways...
Autumn days in Japan is really, urmmm, pure delight....
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I also like Japanese autumn. I miss Japanese nature now. Beautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteThank you Coco... the autumn season is really lovely...
DeleteOpen burning!
ReplyDeleteA bane to us here with haze clouding the sky.
Autumn is here and I wish I am there in Japan to enjoy its splendour. ^^
The open burning is a bane indeed...
DeleteI think it's a good idea to clean up like that, as long as the fire is being monitor!
ReplyDeleteYeap, at least the residents kept an eye on the fires till the end...
DeleteGood gotong royong and rukun tetangga spirit but the open burning is something else.
ReplyDeleteWe actually gotong royong about three times a year... the other two occasions being beach-cleaning, and 'hill-cleaning'...
DeleteI heard that it's good for earth after the burn. Our city doesn't allow backyard burning..
ReplyDeleteActually, the authorities do not allow open burning too, but they seem to 'close one eye' on this...
DeleteThe name Aji Hamlet got nothing or some connection with Shakespeare? Wonderful spirit of togetherness. My daughter was on a one month training in Kobe and she said the locals not only sweep the front compound of their own shop but their neighbors as well. We can hardly see any of these nice attitudes in our place maybe even worst they might sweep their rubbish over to the neighbors instead haha.
ReplyDeleteYour daughter's observations are correct... the civic-mindedness of the Japanese folks are really something... and the Malaysian government keeps talking about 'learning' from the Japanese in the so-called Look East Policy...
DeleteHmmh.. if all Msians have the same spirit, sure Msian is a more cleaner and beautiful country!
ReplyDeleteSpot on... if only Msians can get together to do such a thing...
DeleteOpen Burning. tsk tsk tsk :(
ReplyDeleteThat is the irony of the Japanese logic, clean to the eyes and ignored dirt to the air and skies! That's a lot of C02 emitted to the atmosphere, and they pretend not to know the consequences!
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