Miyajima Deer
I loved the deer on Miyajima. I was sitting on a
seat with wooden slats videoing some deer when another one pulled
my Japan Rail pass out of my back pocket. I quickly jumped up
and tried to pull it out of the deer's mouth but only managed
to save most of it. The Japan Rail pass featured an ukiyo-e
image from the Edo period - Hokusai's "Stormy Sea off
Kanagawa" from the series "Thirty-six Views of
Fuji" which was quite pretty until the pass ended up
half way down a deer's throat. The pass was also ripped in half
but the nice man at the railway station fixed it up with sticky
tape when I showed it to him to board the train back to Hiroshima.