Packing now, leaving soon

Since my last entry I've visited the Yamatane Museum of Art, which was a mild disappointment, attended the Sumida River Fireworks Festival near Senso-ji in Asakusa, where the crowd was estimated at 1 million (or so I was told), and spent a day at Nikko Jinja, a large and ornate Shinto shrine a couple of hours north of Tokyo.

Places I didn't get to, but would like to see, include Shizuoka near Mt. Fuji, which is home to a Hakuin museum, and Takayama, a historic town in the Japanese Alps that I mentioned in an earlier blog.

I'm in my hotel room packing now and having a final cup of green tea before checking out and heading to Narita, and then ... home.

Thanks for coming along with me. I'll post more observations and follow up thoughts soon.

Domo arigato go zai masu.

Everything turns out false;
Everything turns out true
According to your way of thinking.
Falsehood does not exist outside truth
Nor truth lies outside falsehood.
Fellow truth-seekers,
Why do you seek after truth only?
I'd rather ask you if your mind
To seek after truth is true or false.
-Ryokan