Going through my pictures and I realized I hadn't blogged or posted pics from last month's trip to Nagasaki with Grandma. We visited a cathedral that had been in, and partially survived the atomic blast of WWII. We also went to a Chinese museum and watched the parade for and exhibitions of the Chinese Lantern Festival. It was pretty cool.
And we went to Dejima. Dejima was the one place in Japan that was open to foreigners for centuries. The rest of Japan was closed off, in order to avoid the obvious contaminations and impurities us round-eyed gaijin represent, of course, but Dejima was a man-made island in the middle of Nagasaki where the Portuguese, Dutch and whatever other traders doing business were required to live. Fascinating stuff, especially as they're rebuilding/reconstructing it to it's original dimensions.
[All in a secret plan to once again re-house and separate us gaijin, I'm sure]
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