Buddhika Weerasinghe

Thursday, January 13, 2011

A bird flies over the snow covered tree


A bird flies over the snow covered tree in Fukui city, Japan January 10, 2011. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery.844Y8411

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Frozen water droplets fall in to the pond

A frozen water droplets fall in to the pond of Yokokan historical garden in Fukui city, about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan on January 10, 2011.Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y96161

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Coming-of-Age Day ceremony in Japan

A Japanese twenty-year-old woman attends the annual Coming-of-Age Day ceremony at Phoenix Plaza in Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo on January 9, 2011. The Coming of Age Ceremony is celebrated on the second Monday of January in Japan and its Japanese name成人の日 Seijin no Hi. All young people who turn twenty years old in this year celebrate on Seijin no hi ceremony.
Twenty is the age considered as the beginning of adulthood and that age is minimum legal age for voting, drinking and smoking. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery.844Y7795

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A Japanese man prepares coffee

A man prepares coffee over the different varieties of coffee boatels at a café in Fukui city about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2011. Japanese people started to drink coffee about 200 years before and presently one Japanese person drinks about three hundreds coffee cups each year. Holland brought coffee to Japan between the Meji periods (1868-1912). Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y7718

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A general view of the Maruoka castle

Japanese man and woman walk pass the Maruoka castle during the heavy snow fall at Sakai city, Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo on January 1, 2011. Maruoka castle was Built by Shibata Katsutoyo, nephew of Shibata Katsuie, in 1576. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y7385

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Japan mark the Year 2011

A Buddhist monk Takahashi Yuho chants and blessing for devotes during the year end annual religious program for celebration to New Year at Daianzenji Buddhist temple in Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan January 1,2011.pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y6962

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Local tourists enjoy snow in Fukui.

Children make snow man during fall heavy snow at front of the JR station in Fukui, about 320 kilometers west Tokyo in Japan December 31, 2010. They come to Fukui on their New Year holidays. Pic- Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery.844Y6318

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Asian People Marks Sixth Anniversary Of Their Most Shock Day-Indian Ocean Tsunami.

Sri Lankan, people remove dead body of child who died Indian Ocean tsunami that hit the island six years ago December 26, 2004. Sri Lanka today commemorates the sixth tsunami anniversary that claimed the lives of more than 30,000 people. On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.15 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh Province triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean. It killed around 226,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery.(File Picture)

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Christmas Night in Japan

Japanese man dressed as Santa Claus and walks during the heavy snow falling front of the Christmas lights illuminate in Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo Japan December 24, 2010. Christians around the world will gather with family and friends to exchange gifts. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y5670

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Thousands Of Migratory Birds Come To Japan For The Winter


Migratory birds take off from paddy field at Sakai city in Fukui prefecture about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan December 19, 2010. Thousand of migratory birds come to north and west Japan from Siberia and other part of Asia in the winter season.Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y5004

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Kiteboarding Becomes New Modern Water Sport

Kiteboard player, Hisanori Hasegawa practices on the sea of the Sunset Beach at Mikuni city in Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo December 19, 2010. Kiteboarding becomes world wide very fast a new modern water sport. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery.844Y5305　

Japanese ready to celebrate the year of the Rabbit

Japanese girl make rabbit charm at Shrine in Fukui city, about 320 kilometers west Tokyo December 18, 2010. Japanese people celebrate their New Year 1st of January and next year is a rabbit year according to zodiac. Zodiac has a cycle of 12 years each year is represented by an animal. The animals are, in order: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar. This year is year of the tiger.

Japanese people buy rabbit charm from Shrine and Buddhist temple on New Year day and wish to bring their life happiness and fortune. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y3833

Buddhist monks collect alms

Japanese Buddhist monks walk in a street and collecting alms during the snow
fall in Fukui city, about 320 kilometers west Tokyo December 16, 2010.
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Process of Japanese Sake

A sake brewery worker mixes frehs sake at the Jozan Sake Brewery in Fukui city about 320 kilometers northwest Tokyo, Japan, December 6,2010. Sake is an excellent alcoholic beverage in Japan and every year winter is the season of Japanese sake brewer. Japanese sake can be enjoyed either hot or cold. Sake’s history is very long, dating back to the more than two thousand years. Pix-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y2668

Hakusan

Hakusan(白山) is one most beautiful and worship mountain among the three major mountains in the Japan. Japanese people has been prayed Hakusan in the ancient period because nature and beauty of that mountain. It is the highest mountain in the Hokuriku region. Pix-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery.