Interesting modern steel work of art Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) – La Meditation 1885 – Reproducitons of many works by Auguste Rodin can be seen in the world and here´s s statue, the original of which is in Musée Rodin in Paris A little girl with the red shoes on – 1979, in Yamashita Park. Who of us girls did not like wearing red shoes when we were little and who of us girls does not like wearing them now, when we are adult? 🙂 However, there is a sad story about a japanese girl who was reputedly the inspiration for a 1922 nursery rhyme Akai Kutsu = “Red shoes”. And it became the inspiration for this statue, tooI suppose the name of this tourist spot round-trip bus is Akai Kutsu = red shoes – because of the red shoes of A little girl with the read shoes on statue 🙂 The Guardian of Water statue in Yamashita Park was a present of San Diego to Yokohama in 1960Venanzo Crocetti (1913-2003) – Italian sculptor – Il Giovane Cavaliere della Pace – 1987 = The young peace rider. The pilgrimage of this work of art is equally interesting as the statue itself. After being created and exhibited in Italy it was transferred to Hiroshima, Japan in 1989 where it was exhibited in City Museum of Contemporary Art. Then it went to the UN in New York, Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It was also exhibited in Strasbourg – EU Parliament, in Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art and then in Geneva + back and forth to Japan. Real RIDER 😀 On the rooftop of the Sogo building the three-faced ceramic sun caught my eyes. The sun – maybe because this rooftop´s name is Sunshine Square? I liked the fountain and the view from appr. 40 m, tooTwo of the three faces of the ceramic sun – each different Sogo Building Rooftop shinto shrine, oh my, I am used to them almost everywhere but here it took me by surprise! 🙂 Soooooo cute little bus stop! 🙂 “Young Woman”, dated 11.11.1978, is a statue standing on a 1.5 km long Isezaki Mall street, which somehow gives an air old traditional port town street and it is full with shops, nearly as Obchodná Shopping street in Bratislava in my home country of Slovakia 🙂 Isezaki Mall
Some of the gates of Noge district next to Sakurachigo station – an old nostalgic entertainment district full of pubs and bars which look as they have just popped up from times past, from Showa period, to which he who walks in these street goes back in time
