#yokosuka

[iso-photo]

横須賀の走水方面へ行ってきました。

走水神社へお詣りし、御朱印を授かって、短い時間でしたが楽しめました。

過ごしていた午前中から昼下がりは、晴れてくれたので、久しぶりにネオ1のFinePix SL1000を持っていって良かった。

やや眠そうなトビはトリ���ングしました。

薄らいでいる海の向こうの街はММ地区で、1200mmで撮りました。

[hisafoto]

「逸見と汐入」

[donsasuke]

Yokosuka bnw view

[mirumitamono]

[yoko-buri]

my 13 silvia coupe in 2011

[shirasuphoto]

No.464 Yokosuka 8 views

Liveing with the Keikyu line

Keikyu line in Yokosuka city.

Archive;series 8 views No.460~

No.464　横須賀八景

京急と暮らす-京急線

アーカイブ:八景シリーズ　No.460～

[semioticapocalypse]

Shomei Tomatsu. Untitled (series 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate, Yokosuka'). 1958

[carbone14]

Chasseur Grumman F6F Hellcat aux couleurs japonaises retrouvé par un marine du Marine Aircraft Group 31 – Base aérienne navale de Yokosuka – Guerre du Pacifique – Japon – 8 septembre 1945

Photographe : Sergent C. R. McDade

©National Museum of the US Navy - 127-GW-1627-134955

Le Marine Air Group 31 a décollé d'Okinawa pour occuper la base aérienne de Yokosuka après la capitulation du Japon.

[orange207-tmb]

『右へ、左へ。』

[federer7]

Untitled. From 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate'. Yokosuka, Japan. 1959

Photo: Shomei Tomatsu

[si-t-rda]

Yokosuka-City, Kanagawa, Japan/2024

[gon-iii]

紫陽花の国

2019年、くりはま花の国。

ポピーを見に行ったら紫陽花も咲いていた。

[mirumitamono]

[yoko-buri]

popped up on my fb memories - 2011 in Japan picking up some bushes on the twisties

[anthonypresley]

Film Stills PT. IV Part of a new photography series I am working on.

2023 

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[turtleations]

KUMA: Never Ending Bond, Chapter 1, Part 5 (Translation)

Preface & Prologue Chapter 1, Part 1 & 2 Chapter 1, Part 3 Chapter 1, Part 4

Various unforgettable memories I can only now talk about

I think I want to write about some episodes that stayed in my memory now that the statute of limitations has expired.

One summer, when I was still a high school student, Shishô, who was taking his first vacation in a long time, invited me along with a “Let’s go to Okinawa!”

But the day he was planning to leave for Okinawa was the 1st of September. Unfortunately, that was the day school started again.

Meanwhile, it came that TOSHI-san was going to go with HIDE-san, and the two of them did their best to tempt me.

“KUMA, why can’t you? Is it because your mother would get mad at you if you went to Okinawa on the first day of school?” they said. Having been invited by two people I loved, of course I wanted to go, and… spoke to my mother in secret, and since she was an understanding person, she quickly got to the point of giving her OK, saying to me, “Be careful on your trip!” Since I didn’t bring my swimming pants, she came all the way to Kumamoto Airport to bring them to me.

I took a break from school, and my mother said to HIDE-san and TOSHI-san, “You’re always taking such good care of Hideki.”

HIDE-san and TOSHI-san, looking uncomfortable, said with an embarrassed grin, “No, it’s the other way around.”

Even today, I have to laugh to myself when I remember that scene.

When I thus missed school because of X, my mother told the school, “My son has to stay home because he’s not feeling well.”

That is not really a good thing, but the statute of limitations has expired, after all.

And then… other memories with Shishô that I can’t forget are the days in Yokosuka.

Shishô often took me along to Yokosuka, where his parents lived.

Shishô often took me along to places like ROCK CITY [Note: a livehouse] where he gave a lot of lives with SAVER TIGER, the band he was with before X, or Yokosuka’s entertainment district, Dobuita Street.

I was a complete greenhorn, not even being 20 at the time…

Since there was the American military base in the immediate neighborhood, I had to compare my drinking to the American military whenever we went to Yokosuka. Shots on the rock… No matter how many I had, I would not get drunk.

The reason was that I had to get HIDE-san safely back to his parents’ home.

I wonder if I was able to harden my body because I took pride in my duty of properly supporting HIDE-san… Even when I drank, I kept the physical condition of someone who did not.

We sometimes got into fights with the American soldiers, even to the point of the police being involved, but… Looking back at it now, it makes me feel nostalgic.

Another thing I remember when thinking about Yokosuka is Shishô’s mother.

When I went to his parents’ house with Shishô, there was a mountain of food prepared there. Seeing this, HIDE-san said, “KUMA, if I eat like that in this place, I’m going to get fat again.”

But while he mumbled things like that, to me he always looked very relaxed when we were at his parents’ place.

Remembering his childhood, he often laughed and said, “Ever since I was little, I got fat because I ate like this!!” Whenever he returned to Yokosuka, he called the former members of SAVER TIGER  and other friends, and we all went drinking together. He always seemed to have a lot of fun.

My current work has me think of Tokyo as a battlefield, and I realize that this awareness is something that I must have naturally absorbed from observing Shishô at that time.

Chapter 1, Part 6