Travel Quotes: March 2021

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 "So, this is the place!

The crowds, coming, going, meeting, parting;

Friends, strangers, known, unknown.


- Translated from poem by Semimaru (Japanese poet of the early Heian Period, name as recorded in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)


Circle of Stones, Kamitsushimamachikin, Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan (2019)


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