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Autumnal Leaves Turn to Gold
Autumnal Leaves Turn to Gold
Near the end of November, the leaves of the more than 140 101-year-old ginkgo biloba trees lining Jingu Gaien Avenue turned deep shades of yellow. Bathing in the late autumn sunlight, large numbers of people came out to enjoy this golden hued world, strolling beneath the trees as fallen leaves crunched underfoot.
Photo: Autumn gold flanks the street leading to the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery
Dinosaurs Make an Appearance at Tokyo Big Sight
The "Tokyo Venture Technology Awards 2009" took place on November 6 at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center. This year’s competition drew 148 entries with the grand prize being awarded to Synthera Technologies for its development of MUSTag (Multiple Simultaneous Tag) assay technology, highly appraised as a medical technology contributing to the early detection of illness.
Photo: Governor Ishihara takes a look at Special Award winner ON-ART’s large-scale "Young Allosaurus" which is able to move about realistically.
Commemorative Events Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of His Majesty’s Enthronement
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Enthronement of His Majesty the Emperor, on November 12, the date on which the Ceremony of Enthronement took place, a variety of events were held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) including commemorative tree-planting at parks including Jindai Shokubutsu Botanical Park and Wakasu Kaihin Koen Park, a photo exhibition at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, light-ups of the TMG Building No. 1 and Rainbow Bridge, and the operation of buses decorated with celebratory ornaments.
Photo: A decorated bus passes in front of the Imperial Palace’s Sakuradamon gate.
Gather Up Good Fortune with a Kumade Rake
On November 24, the Ni-no-Tori fair was held at Ookunitama Jinja Shrine in Miyamachi, Fuchu City. This shrine’s Tori-no-Ichi fair is one of the big three open-air fairs of the Kanto area. Approximately 60,000 people visited the shrine on this day. Shops selling kumade, decorated bamboo rakes to “rake in good luck,” lined the shrine’s approach, and amid the loud, recession-beating cries of the shop vendors, a rhythmical clapping of hands accompanied the sales of large-sized kumade rakes.
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