Showing posts with label Yokohama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yokohama. Show all posts

01 October 2016

Bridge over the Yokohama Bay in Yokohama (Japan)

Girl at the harbor! Girl from that foreign land!
Don't run out to the dock. The dock is wet with rain;
my heart is blazing with the sorrow of departing and resentment for being deported.
Oh, my beloved girl at the harbor of Yokohama,
don't run out to the dock. The rail is wet with rain.
“The weather could've been better at least . . .”

Beginning of the poem 
The Pier of Yokohama under the umbrella
Jiwon Shin

13 August 2015

Yokohama Bay Bridge crossing the Tokyo Bay in Yokohama (Japan)


The lights of the city are so pretty
Yokohama, Blue Light Yokohama
I'm happy with you
Please let me hear
Yokohama, Blue Light Yokohama
Those words of love from you
I walk and walk, swaying
Like a small boat in your arms
I hear your footsteps coming
Yokohama, Blue Light Yokohama

Translated from Blue Light Yokohama
song by Ayumi Ishida

13 October 2010

Yokohama Bay Bridge (Japan)

"... There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of Japanese screens, ..."

Yokohama according to 
Around the World in Eighty Days,
Jules Verne