This was the fourth attempt at trying to get something close to where I wanted to be going – some kind of Japanese scroll minimalism – simple washes with a limited palette.
I still have much to learn.
Month: April 2017
Thatch
Tucked away behind the Tenryuji Temple in west Kyoto. Someone, hidden behind us somewhere in the temple complex, was playing a wooden flute. Long deep distant notes, held waveringly.
More trees on trees
Zen gardens
Despite the numbers of people the power of the architecture and landscape mutes the crowds. Ryoan-Ji Temple, western Kyoto.
Wedding temple photography
The difference here is that this is actually the wedding day as opposed to a pre-posed photographic shoot to celebrate the forthcoming nuptials. At the Matsumoto Taisha Temple as the sun dropped behind the surrounding hills after an afternoon’s thunderstorm and wet cold weather turned into a beautiful spring evening.
Public toilets
At the Kasuga Taisha temple, Nara. Only here.
Coffee cup details
The handle is exquisite, a perfect concave to fit your thumb as you lift the cup.
Trees on trees
Nara Deer Park.
Selfie 170426
We’re having coffee and donuts in the largest 7-11 superstore as we make our way out of Osaka to Nara. A short day of only 35km but it’s raining and will do for the rest of today.
Osaka has interesting residential districts through which we passed as we cycled east, typified by small boutique shops, bakeries and restaurants beneath tall apartment buildings. Amongst all the urban chaos there is a neatness to everything, an order to the inside of shop and office windows and the small manufacturing premises cutting and drilling machine parts in tiny spaces.
It looks as if the artisan ways of making things still thrives here. We often come across sewing shops selling fabric, zips and everything to make clothing. Similarly DIY shops full of tools and equipment. It is definitely a place of ‘can do’ which is seen on the much larger scale in the built civil engineering structures of bridges, elevated roads and railways, which connects the country so impressively together.
More Ando
The Sayamaike Museum outside Osaka.
Beautiful architecture with a series of external entrance space approaches to find the way into the museum.
It could be said that it hides the final entrance doors very successfully.
