Tuesday, April 8, 2025

(3359) Going towards Kamakura's beach...

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...a Methodist church from 1926, a reminder that the broader Kanagawa was the area through which Western influences reached Japan in the late 19th and early 20th century. (The church pre-existed but was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.)

(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore 2" set on Flickr).

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