{"id":812,"date":"2008-05-09T18:25:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T09:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-05-09\/812"},"modified":"2008-05-09T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T09:25:21","slug":"hanging-wisteria-at-the-sandai-shrine-kusatsu-city-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-05-09\/812","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Wisteria at the Sandai Shrine, Kusatsu-City, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 18 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>350 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nWisteria at the Sandai Shrine<\/span>\nKusatsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan\n<\/div>\n\n

The day I\ngot<\/span> back from camping<\/a>, Fumie happened to hear from a taxi<\/span> driver about\na small<\/span> out-of-the-way shrine not too far away that had a nice<\/span> bloom of wisteria<\/a> (or fuji<\/i>\n– \u85e4 – in Japanese), so yesterday afternoon we made the 45\nminute drive to Sandai\nTemple<\/a> in Kusatsu to check it out.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>60 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

I guess wisteria is normally a climbing plant, but here they have them\ndangling from horizontal trellises. They were mostly purple\/lavender, but\nthere were some light pink ones as well.<\/p>\n\n

There were a lot of big bumblebees among the flowers (two can be seen in\nthe photo above), and one had to sometimes dodge them as they barreled\nalong.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 200 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 18 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>45 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 18 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nView from Below<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>180 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nWall of Wisteria<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nSelective Focus<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 80 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>80 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 200 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 18 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nShrine Entrance<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

The shrine is quite small and located in the middle of nowhere, grouped\nwith a few<\/span> houses but otherwise surrounded on all sides by field after\nfield after field. (See any of the “map & image data” links under each\npicture for a satellite<\/span> view of the area.)<\/p>\n\n

It's free to enter, but they suggest a donation<\/span> of 200 yen (two bucks)\nper person. I tried<\/span> to give them more, but they refused. They've even\narranged for free parking at a school<\/span> or somesuch next door.<\/p>\n\n

The parking lot had a slide and some swings, and other play activities\nthat Anthony was much more interested in than the flowers.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 70 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nConsiderably Precarious<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 150 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>80 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nMommy-Style is Easier<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The day I got back from camping, Fumie happened to hear from a taxi driver about a small out-of-the-way shrine not too far away that had a nice bloom of wisteria (or fuji – \u85e4 – in Japanese), so yesterday afternoon we made the 45 minute drive to Sandai Temple in Kusatsu to check it out.<\/p>

I guess wisteria is normally a climbing plant, but here they have them dangling from horizontal trellises. They were mostly purple\/lavender, but there were some light pink ones as well.<\/p>

There were a lot of big bumblebees among the flowers (two can be seen [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}