Tag: travel
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Torii gate.
Not a barrier, but a welcoming. Ive walked through a few Torii gates this trip. At first I just strolled through, looking up ahead at the temple or shrine or whatnot. But I learned. It is a gateway. A liminal space. A threshold. Intended to separate the sacred from the mundane. A portal to mix…
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Koi II.
So I’m going to give myself a 9.9/10 for this one. Shot late in the afternoon just after arriving in Hakone. It was like 3.30 pm but the sun was just setting behind the tall mountains that cusp this town. Nothing special, just a pool of fish in front of an old hotel. But that…
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Observations and annotations.
After a dreary, grey-rain morning in Kyoto, the sun unexpectedly rearranged the sky palette into scarlet purples and deep magentas, and low-hanging mist. A postponed excursion out to the Philosophers Path was now the perfect response. The path curves along the route of a canal and is lined with hundreds of cherry trees that explode…
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The umbrellas of Kyoto.
A cold rainy umbrella day in Kyoto. A stay inside and eat chocolate muffins day. A double shot espresso day. But first, some pics.
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The bamboo mosh pit.
It’s Monday. A public holiday in Japan. The objective was to explore the bamboo forrest at Arashiyama before the anticipated crowds arrived. Narrator: unfortunately the crowds had a similar objective. And so it was. If you were to collect the people from every mosh pit at every concert in the world and bring them all…
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Kyoto at night.
Arrived at our Kyoto digs late in the afternoon. Out to walk the crowded (so many westerners!)streets. First objective: relocating a favourite vegan cafe. The writer Pico Iyer said this of Kyoto: “I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her…
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