July 11th we went to a garden that was really pretty. It was founded by an British guy (I think) and was part of Nagasaki where the foreigners lived. He was responsible for helping Japan enter the Meiji period, in which the Japanese opened their borders and began to embrace technology.
Nearby there was a cultural museum that contains these parade floats. We will see several of these types of floats in action in Kyoto in a few days, when we go to a festival there.
We visited a really old wooden church
We had dinner on a wharf
That was some good beer. We compared Kirin Lager to Asahi Draft. They were both excellent.
There was a lovely old boat in the harbor.
There are a lot of canals in Nagasaki
Near the old boat, there was a ceremony to bless a new parade float, that I think will be used by the Japanese coast guard when they participate in festivals. Just before we got close enough to photograph, they were practicing moving the float around. Then they finished, and the two monks below began some kind of ceremony.
You can see the float on the right.
The ceremony took about 45 minutes, and the priests did all kinds of things to the boat.
We watched the sun set during the ceremony, and I thought the clouds in the distance looked pretty.
The coast guard boat was in the harbor nearby.
Then the guys came running by. They were in good shape!
Another beautiful sunset in Japan.
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