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1. “Hachi waits at the train station / The dog waits for nine minutes / It’s after five / It’s time / And the professor doesn’t arrive.”
(Shibuya station, Tokyo)
2. “Oh, somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly. And the dream that you dare to… Oh why, oh why can’t I?”
(Rainbow Bridge, Odaiba, Tokyo)
3. “I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.”
(Hiroshima City, Hiroshima)
4. “A momentary repose accompanied by joys like the drumming of the ocean; colored with sorrows of unknown origin. Didn’t it seem like the nape of the slope sparkled; though it was simply the leaves of its shrubs turning over all at once?”
(Meoto Iwa, Mie)
5. “Dreams, memories, the sacred–they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp.”
(Matsumoto Castle, Nagano)
6. “His soul stretched tight across the skies / That fade behind a city block / Or trampled by insistent feet / At four and five and six o’clock.”
7. “To be completely alive every moment in spite of the inevitable.”
(Shirahige Shrine, Shiga)
8. “Don’t undress my love / you might find a mannequin / don’t undress the mannequin / you might find my love.”
9. “Last night I drunk text messaged God.”
(Ushiki, Ibaraki)
10. “There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
(Takeda Castle Ruins, Hyogo)
