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It has come and gone, but one of my favorite seasons of the year is the stinky season of kinmokusei. There was a bit of a false start to it. It had started to bloom around us and then a typhoon came through and knocked out all the smell. We were quite disappointed that it barely lasted a week. We had gone out for an evening walk to go and find the lovely stinky flowers. And there’s a lot of them near our apartment. But the typhoon came in and seemed all done. Tokyo also had an incredibly long series of rainy/not sunny days. And it wasn’t until we got another sunny day nearly a week after the typhoon that the kinmokusei started to finish their bloom. When the bloom finally arrived we had several more evening walks. Trying to find where the flowers might be blooming. On our way to the train station we’ll move from one side of the street to the other where we have found the big trees. But now the flowers are done for the season. Now we’ll enjoy the actual stinky of the ginkgo. Their…

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