LEFT: The high-platform shoe fashion that is all the rage today is not as new as it would seem. Japanese women in the summer festival parade in Tokyo are wearing high shoes believed to have been in fashion a thousand years ago. ABOVE: Every 20 years the people of Ise, in southern Japan, hold a special gala to welcome sacred wood given to the pious to rebuild the Ise shrine. This is Japan’s most religious site, dedicated to the goddess, Amaterasu Ohmikami, who is believed to have originated Japan’s islands. RIGHT: Two geisha girls.
ABOVE: This 11m statue is the work of Sshizan Yamada, of Futema, a sculptor-philosopher who was 89 when he completed it. BELOW: A wedge-shaped suburban residential area on the outskirts of Sapporo, Hokkaido’s principal city. Japan is troubled by overcrowding because of a population of more than 112 million.
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Press, 27 November 1979, Page 11
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143LEFT: The high-platform shoe fashion that is all the rage today is not as new as it would seem. Japanese women in the summer festival parade in Tokyo are wearing high shoes believed to have been in fashion a thousand years ago. ABOVE: Every 20 years the people of Ise, in southern Japan, hold a special gala to welcome sacred wood given to the pious to rebuild the Ise shrine. This is Japan’s most religious site, dedicated to the goddess, Amaterasu Ohmikami, who is believed to have originated Japan’s islands. RIGHT: Two geisha girls. ABOVE: This 11m statue is the work of Sshizan Yamada, of Futema, a sculptor-philosopher who was 89 when he completed it. BELOW: A wedge-shaped suburban residential area on the outskirts of Sapporo, Hokkaido’s principal city. Japan is troubled by overcrowding because of a population of more than 112 million. Press, 27 November 1979, Page 11
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