Another stroll through Gotokuji’s cemetery
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It was so hot and humid today I fled the house an hour before sunset for a stroll through the cemetery at Gotokuji. If I couldn’t find anywhere chilly, then chilling would have to do. I love Gotokuji’s cemetery. I can’t help but think if I’m ever going to see a ghost, it’ll be there.
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Posted to Photographs • 2004.06.26 (Sat) • 22:28
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Posted by ACJ 2004.06.26, 22:41
Wow, I’d say. That’s spooky. It’s more beautiful than that it’s spooky, though.
Posted by pickyin 2004.06.27, 00:29
Spooky enough! So not Six Feet Under but with much personality.
Posted by Claire 2004.06.29, 00:06
I’ve always found Asian cemeteries fascinating, much more than Western ones. I have some great photos from Chinese and Japanese cemeteries I once visited in Broome, Australia. There’s something wonderful about those Asian characters on the headstones :)
Posted by Sajjad 2004.06.29, 17:23
I rode home through the Aoyama cemetery a couple of times while returning from Roppongi at the wee hours, before the sun had come up. It felt awesome to be alone on my bicycle in the middle of this huge resting place for the dead with an eerie light starting to appear on the horizon.
Posted by Angela 2004.07.04, 12:06
This beautiful picture tells more than 1000 words, and it conjures up the eeriest of thoughts. Bravo.
Posted by Bassett 2004.07.28, 02:35
Waverley cemetery on the 200-ft high sandstone cliffs of Sydney’s eastern shoreline is almost sliding into the sea. The hill learns as drunkenly as the Victorian-era gravestones. It’s like a slow burial at sea, when they slide the canvas-cocooned corpse from underneath the ensign. It’s a strange place amid the startling blue sea and red brick suburban house colour schemes of beachside Aussieness.
Posted by jh 2004.07.28, 15:25
Bass —
I had lunch in an Indian restaurant the other day where a television played the sub-continental equivalent of MTV. The videos were all basically identical —- man, woman, and schmaltzy love —- but one of them was set in Sydney (an exotic locale to pre-pubescent viewers in Mumbai, I guess) and featured numerous shots of a lovelorn fellow wailing for some woman in Waverley cemetery (as good a place as any, I suppose).
Posted by Waverley 2004.09.10, 15:56
Oh yes, we are an operational cemetery. As well as the daily funerals, headstone contructions, and cremation gardens we host a range of filming activites. while not strictly funeral related we host about 10 of these shoots each year. Revenue raised from filming is usually used to restore a memorial that the production compnay chooses.
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