Tag: miyajima
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Huge rice scooper
Here is my girlfriend in front of the biggest しゃもじ in the world: If you ever go to 宮島, you’ll see those wooden rice paddles everywhere. They are used to scoop the rice out of the rice cooker, at least before the wooden type was replaced by newer plastic, non-sticky ones. Souvenir shops sell big…
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Temple stickers
Still in 大聖院 temple, this gate was covered in these paper stickers. I don’t exactly know what they are for, my girlfriend told me it had something to do with sumo… Anyways, it looked really neat.