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My son Leo Switzerland Japan

For four months in 2001-2002 I held a visiting professorship at the University of Tokyo. 
Prof. Kunimitsu Uchinokura and his wife Azusa were my gracious hosts.

Olga and Azusa wearing kimonos at Uchinokuras beautiful summer house in Nikko. This small town 2.5 hrs drive north of Tokyo is famous for its shrines, temples,  mausoleums. mountains and waterfalls.

As any normal tourists we simply had to take a photo with the Fuji-san in the background.  I wonder which mathematical function describes Fuji's profile?


Here is another picture of Olga with a group of colorfully dressed teenagers before a rock concert in downtown Tokyo.


 

This is me in the right corner. Everyone is dressed in costumes of their favorite manga-comics characters. Some other species (not shown here) include fairy tale girls in lacy dresses, sexy nurses in white robes covered with fake blood, etc.

Olga in front of a portable shinto-shrine.

This is me in Kyoto. The building behind me is the famous Golden Pavilion in Kinkaku-ji Temple. The original Kinkaku-ji was built in 1397 but burned to the ground in 1950 by a monk who got obsessed with it.

  

Golden foliage of a ginko tree

 

Olga in front of the Great Buddha (Daibutsu) in Kamakura, cast from bronze in 1252 A.D.

Cat-guardian of a shinto shrine in Asakusa, Tokyo.

Prof. Kunimitsu Uchinokura and myself in a temple in Arashiyama, Kyoto.

Olga sipping tea in Arashiyama, Kyoto.

Wooden teahouse in Arashiyama, Kyoto.

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