Father’s Day

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To celebrate the day, I enshrined the memory of my father in a little cedar Shinto altar I bought in Kawagoe.
It’s not the ornate Buddhist butsudan that Japanese families use and I realise I’m not using it the “right way” but it looks like something Dad would have built himself; he enjoyed working with wood and miniatures. I like it and I think he would chuckle and shake his head at me if he knew what I was up to, enshrining him as Shinto kami.
Enjoy, Dad.

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Mediatinker, Kristen McQuillin, is an American-born resident of Japan since 1998. This blog chronicles her life, projects, thoughts, and small adventures.