#85 Le matin de pluie (朝雨隅田川

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At Asagaya it was raining. At Yaesu(八重洲）it was raining.
On the Eitai bridge (永代橋)it rains silently and calmly.
It keeps raining on the River Sumida(隅田川) in the morning.

#86 Le soir de pluie (夕雨隅田川）

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It has been raining all day long.
No one stops walking on the Eitai bridge(永代橋）.
I put my RX on the handrail and take this with two seconds self-timer.
I have to defend my camera from hard rain with my umbrella.
With a little bit of luck there is lack of wind.

#87 La trombe d' oignon frit(玉葱竜巻揚げ)

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They sell this onion tornade fry at a underground food market
of department store in Shinjuku. They call this fry " Wirlpool".

When I got this one, I was very happy. After taking photo, I am
embarrassed how to eat this!

#88 la crete-de-coq (鶏頭 練馬北町）

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A cockscommb is the fifth name of flower in my life.
The first is chrysanthemum which my mother loved to raise.
The second is ume (Japanse apricot) that is my mother's name.
The third is cherry blossom.
The fourth is tulip.
And the fifth is this one.

#89 Dokan Oota （太田道灌日暮里）

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In front of the Nippori station is there this bronze statue.
This warier's name is Dohkan Ohta.
In the begining of the age of wars he was the most famous general in
the Kantoh plain. He was the most smartest and cleverest commander.
He was the best administrator, too. And he was a man of literature,
a man of righteous and a man of realism.
If his master aristocrat had been a man of good king, japanese history
would be changed. His master envied Dokan's popularity to kill him
in the bath hut.
After the assasination, this idiot master had to keep the endless war
with his relatives until the day of his death.
Dohkan Ohta is the first man who constructed the Edo castle.
Pigeons are now perching on his bow. What a peace we have!

#91 La statue （馬の立ち像 練馬早宮）

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I doubt my eye when I find this bronze horse in a park.
I doubt how a horse would be looked when it stands up.

（@ Nerima ward）