As we were leaving the train station on Sunday afternoon, there was a man on the escalator ahead of us dressed in a traditional yukata and holding a bird puppet made out of paper:
We stopped near the station to rent a bicycle for Shelley, and a few minutes later we cycled past the bird man, who was walking up the hill in the direction of our neighborhood:
As we got closer to our house, there was a break in the clouds, and the top part of the mountain where the
daimonji (
大) character is located was briefly illuminated by the sun:
As we waited at the next crosswalk we found ourselves next to the man once again, and this time the bird greeted us:
We saw them for the last time overlooking the canal at the beginning of the Philosopher's Path:
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