13 roofs and sake
Quick post before my laptop battery dies (and before I fall asleep exhausted from putting this IKEA bed together).
Here are 2 more interesting photos from that trip in November I took, during which we saw the awesome Himeji castle.
This building was famous for having 13 floors / roofs. Jyu-san-to I believe was the name, and it was part of a series of buildings all snug in a remote mountainside rich with history.
Here are drums of sake consecrated at the Ise Jingu shrine for ameterasu (the sun god) of Shintoism. It is very common to see these drums of sake stacked up at shrines.
December 14th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
No pictures of the bed?
December 14th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
haha
here you go http://www.ikea.com/jp/en/catalog/products/80121338
December 17th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Interesting. I guess I’ll assume you constructed correctly. Looks cool.
December 17th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
yeah, i think i got it right… actually 2 of the support boards were not cut to the correct length so i had to wait for IKEA to deliver replacements… but it seems to hold together fine so far
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:46 am
I just want to know… what the hell is the point of 13 ROOFS!? I’d hate to clean those gutters. lolll
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:01 pm
LOL… perhaps it was part of a gov’t program to create jobs for out-of-work roofers…
I’m not really sure the significance of the 13 floors, I’m sure there is something in this pamphlet that I can’t easily read though.