Posts Tagged ‘桜’
the blood tree
The cherry trees in the Osaka area are just starting to blossom, but there’s one tree on the Osaka University campus that’s already in full bloom. In fact, the other day when it was a bit warm the flower petals were already starting to fall from the tree, forming drifting flower flurries in the air. […]
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snow blossoms at yoshino
The plum blossoms are at full strength, the white magnolia in my backyard is covered with so many blossoms that it looks like a performing waiter balancing a thousand ceramic cups on a thousand arms like some kind of woodland Shiva, and the songbirds have returned to scope out all the good early nesting opportunities. […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, 35mm Ultron, aerial ropeway, ancient Japanese poems, asceticism, Buddhism, Buddhist statuary, cherry blossoms, 紀 友則, En no Gyoja, 金峯山寺, 蔵王堂, 蔵王権現, 雪, 西行 法師, Ki no Tomonori, Kinpusen Temple, Kinpusen-ji, Mount Yoshino, mountain ascetics, Nara Prefecture, Saigyō Hōshi, Shugendō, snow, snow blossoms, somei-yoshino, Voigtlander Bessa R2A, Voigtlander Bessa-L, waka, winter, Yoshino, Yoshino Ropeway, Zao-Gongen, Zaōdō, 冬, 吉野ロープウェイ, 吉野蔵王権現, 吉野山, 和歌, 奈良県, 役行者, 染井吉野, 桜, 修験道
All photographs taken using a Ricoh GRD2, spontaneously and without design.
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Tags: お花見, blossom viewing, cherry blossoms, night walk, Osaka, photography, Ricoh GRD2, spring, square format, 大阪, 春, 桜
After six years of living in Japan I’ve gotten on an airplane and flown back to live in the States, where I’ll be living for at least one year. My last few weeks in Japan were spent meeting up with all of the friends who have helped to make my time in Japan so wonderful, […]
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Tags: air travel, さようなら, Basho, California oak, cherry blossom season, haiku, intercontinental travel, leaving Japan, sakura, sayonara, 桜
blossom blizzard
Photo information, by order of appearance, including camera, lens, and film type: 1) Voigtlander Bessa-L, 15mm Heliar, uncertain film type. 2) Voigtlander Bessa R2A, 35mm Ultron, Kodak T-Max 400. 3) Voigtlander Bessa-T, 50mm Nokton, Fujifilm Provia 100. 4) LOMO LC-A+, Fujifilm Natura 1600. 5) Voigtlander Bessa R2A, 75mm Color-Heliar, unknown film. 6) Voigtlander Bessa R2A, […]
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A few leftover photographs from around my neighborhood, taken during cherry blossom season. All shots were taken using a Holga loaded with Fujifilm Neopan 400PN.
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Tags: お花見, black and white, cherry blossom season, cherry blossoms, 豊中市, film, Fujifilm Neopan 400, graveyard, Holga, Japan, Kasuga-jinja, medium format, monochrome, Osaka, reverie, shrine, spring, tombstones, toy camera, toyonaka, 墓, 大阪, 日本, 春, 春日神社, 桜
Night sakura
One of the greatest pleasures of cherry blossom season is wandering around at night and finding the bunches and clusters of blossoms illuminated by artificial light. Although there are many places where this is done on purpose and the trees are spotlit and gorgeous, in other places it’s just the streetlights and fluorescents that do […]
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Tags: お花見, blossom viewing, cherry blossoms, cherry trees, night, ohanami, osaka university, photography, sakura, 夜, 大阪大学, 桜
