Japan, Kamakura - Daily Life, ca 1957

Japan, Kamakura - Daily Life, ca 1957 Street w/ hanging decorations & well-dressed crowd passing, including US servicemen. Japanese entering & leaving Shinto temple; making offerings. 19:04:35 Table w/ small Japanese figurines / dolls; young boys & girls in traditional dress looking at them. 19:05:09 Mother plays w/ child. People walking past elaborate paper decorated “tree”. Families past. Man selling decorations (?). LS of crowd along wide road on temple grounds. 19:07:29 LS across open park to large post-war apartment buildings, people walking. Dark in late afternoon w/ crowds past stalls 19:08:23 Temple entrance, people passing; overhead shot of people up steps to temple. Forest behind crowd. Entrance & decorations. Large ornate building roof. Large stand & women selling good-luck arrows. Japanese taking family pictures. 19:10:53 Buses leaving from in front of ??. Crowds waiting. 19:11:21 LS Mt. Fuji beyond small bay. 19:12:01 Street w/ open store front. Residential street & kids playing, motorcycle past. Dark. Silhouetted Christmas reindeer on roof. Post-Occupation; Ethnic; Traditional Clothing; 1950s; Kimono; Tourists; Recreation; Vacation; Weekend;