Old-Timey Visual Scene

It's fall of the leaf.
Let's date back a half-century for the people's lives in Japan.

The typical Japanese houses surrounded by wooden board fences.

In the drying area at rooftop,
the residents in the house were keeping a wistful eye

on the round full moon in autumn and the stars in winter,
fluffy white cloud in summer.

Raking fallen leaves in the precincts of a shrine
used to be done by local volunteers.

It looks like that Goma is arranged
in one of dioramas for Shinto shrine.

They baked their sweet potatoes just harvested in the raked fallen leaves.

We found a shadow of Japan's good old days on walking course.

Our commuter buses run through a small local shopping street.
One of the bus stops is located in front of an old communal bathhouse /Sentō. (銭湯）
A small of bookstore is carried on business in combination with a flower shop.

In the summer and the early fall,

there are the flowers, a kind of morning glory flowers blooming lovely

hanging in the shop's roof.
These were also usual scenes in my old time.

Look at the showcases of the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama.

Taking pictures is permitted there.

These are miniature newspaper readers in the days of
our grandparents, parents, and childhood.

Let me show you one of newspapers nonsubscribers nowadays.

By the way,Do you know Sentō in Tokyo ?

Onna yu ("Bathhouse Women") by Torii Kiyonaga (1752–1815)