Category: Japan
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The Swimming Pool
This pool owes its alienating effect to the fact that it’s actually only a baby pool with hardly 10 cm of water on a transparent floor under which people can walk by. It is a work of art by Leandro Erlich in the Museum of Contemporary Art at Kanazawa. I used the photo in my film…
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Colour resonance
In last week’s picture we had a nice example of ‘colour resonance’ and here we have another one, again in Kyoto. Was the first one at Kinkaku-ji, this time it’s in Ginkaku-ji. Even more than last week I suspect the lady here of having dressed in this blouse on purpose, so well it matches the colours…
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What shall I wear today?
“This, or maybe that? No, let’s put on this white blouse today, with the yellow sweater on top.” This is what the girl may have thought in the morning, standing in front of her open wardrobe, before she got dressed and left the house. And there she is then, with her beautiful wealth of black…
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Shades of green in a gentle drizzle
I could tell here almost the same thing as with the photo of last week’s post, be it that we have left Arashiyama and are now in the Kinkaku-ji park in another neighbourhood of Kyoto. Furthermore, as you can see, a gentle drizzle is now filling the air, and that does make a difference. The…
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Shades of green with streaks of yellow
Shades of green with streaks of yellow Encountering a scene of such natural beauty, a painter may feel the urgency to search for his brushes, a poet to weigh the words that come to his mind, while I ….. I take the picture that you are now looking at. We are in Arashiyama, the neighbourhood on…
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The nape of her neck
After having dwelt somewhat in the last two posts on the peculiarities of the female kimono, I would now like to give away why this dress fascinates me so irresistibly. The secret is in the collar. At the back, the kimono shows a graceful dip with a perpendicular, raised collar. Since the rest of the…
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Kimono show
Judging from the number of spectators at the Kimono show on the photo, we can infer that people, including the younger generation, remain intrigued by this classical Japanese dress. (See also last week’s post.) That’s interesting, since it is an attire that conceals more than we are used to these days: except for head and…
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Dream women
Was the opening between the trees of this Japanese garden specially conceived to let me have a look at the two lovely girls that were seated there so nicely framed? Having come closer, I noticed that they were swathed in kimonos, those beautiful, traditional dresses that transform women who wear them into mysterious, almost unapproachable…
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Congeniality
Girl takes picture of little red flowers against green leaves. Fine flowers. Fine girl. Her attentive look perceives colour, life, beauty in a tiny detail of nature. Her gesture reveals a modest, sensitive mind. And I ? I see the outstretched arm, lovely arm, fathom the scene at a glance and perpetuate the moment. Two…
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Reflections
I like reflections, and photos that contain reflections. Reflections invite to look more intently and provoke thought – see my earlier posts Floating Baobab and A stick in shallow water. It is probably no coincidence that the word reflection has these two meanings: mirroring or mirror image, and thought or thinking. The reflection of the…
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