Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1250 — image data
Keeping a Weary Eye on Things
京都の田舎にある無縁仏に

A followup of sorts to a four-year-old post about a dumping ground in Kyoto for no-longer-sponsored temple monuments. Wandering through my photo archive, I came across this set and thought to post a few more from that outing...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/16, ISO 6400 — image data
Paul and a Packed Field of Monuments

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/640 sec, f/1.4, ISO 200 — image data
Plausible Guess
I can guess why the headless figurine found its way here

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/320 sec, f/2.2, ISO 200 — image data
Nice Light
for a moment

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/160 sec, f/7.1, ISO 800 — image data
As Far As The Eye Can See
sort of

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — image data
Section of Spires

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1250 — image data
Sad (and Confusing)

There's a certain sadness about the whole place, but this kind of monument, of a history written in stone discarded halfway through, seems particularly forlorn. It chronicles deaths starting in 1919 with a 2-year-old girl, and ends in 83 years later 2002 with (I think) her sister-in-law (of sorts).

I'm probably totally misunderstand what I think I'm seeing, but it looks like the last entry in 2002 is for the 84-year-old third wife of the 2nd-to-last entry, a man who died at 82 in 1987. The entry prior to that is 42 years earlier, in 1945, of the man's oldest son who died at the age of 2, a month after the man's second wife had died at age 30. His first wife died at 23, thirteen years earlier in 1932. The first and second wives were sisters. The first two entries (1919 and 1929) were additional sisters who passed at 2 and 19. A fifth sister clearly exists, born between 1916-1918 (and so about the same age as the third wife), but doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere. Anyway, I'm guessing that the third wife had prepaid for her data to be entered, but no one paid the annual maintenance fees after that, so eventually the stone was removed to this area.

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/16, ISO 6400 — image data
Also Sad
two miscarriages, but the blanks are not filled in on the dates (which is odd)

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1000 — image data
Indistinguishable From a Rock
some were worn down a lot

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/160 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — image data

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 2200 — image data
Different Neighborhoods

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 640 — image data
Our Security Guard
from the first photo