Jon Seddon's Photos - Japan - Tokyo
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Hamarikyu-teien, or the Detached Palace Garden, and some newer Tokyo buildings. Apparently duck catching was a popular sport several centuries ago and so there are a series of walls and ponds in the garden to allow people to sneak up on unsuspecting ducks - a unusual hobby that I've not heard of before.

Hamarikyu-teien, or the Detached Palace Garden, and some newer Tokyo buildings. Apparently duck catching was a popular sport several centuries ago and so there are a series of walls and ponds in the garden to allow people to sneak up on unsuspecting ducks - a unusual hobby that I've not heard of before.

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