Posts Tagged ‘graveyard’
Recently I had a chance to interview my neighbor, Damien Molony, who is currently making the final preparations for an upcoming exhibition of his works. The exhibition, which will be held at the CASO gallery from January 12th until January 17th, will feature a series of paintings that Damien, who is based in Canberra, Australia, […]
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Tags: aesthetics, art, CASO, Contemporary Art Space Osaka, 絵, 美術, Damien Molony, exhibit, exhibition, figurines, Four Sculpted Scenes, graves, gravestones, graveyard, interview, jizo, life in Japan, local space, locality, Michael Leunig, Osaka, painting, place, poetics of space, religion, representations of religious figures, statuary, television sunset, the experience of vision, visual framing, 地蔵, 墓, 大阪
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
Koya-san VI: Okunoin
Although Jess and I were tired, we couldn’t leave Koya-san without visiting the vast cemetery area of Okunoin, a graveyard of some 200,000 tombs that line the path that extends from Kobo Daishi’s mausoleum. It’s almost impossible to convey the sense of scale of the Okunoin cemetery. It’s about a twenty-minute walk from the entrance […]
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Tags: 空海, 高野山, gravemarkers, gravestones, graveyard, jiso stones, jizo, jizo figures, kannon, Kobo-Daishi, Koya-san, Kukai, lamps, Lance Bass, lanterns, mausoleum, Memorial Hall of Lamps, Mount Koya, North Borneo War Memorial, Okunoin, outer space, rocket, The Hall of Lamps, tombs, Torodo, White Ant Memorial, 地蔵, 墓地, 奥の院, 弘法大師
Honen-in
Our first, and as it turned out only, temple stop along the Philosopher’s Walk was at Honen-in. Why didn’t we end up making it to any other temples? Um. Because we spent too long drinking coffee and tea at various shops and eating dango and then — suddenly! — it was 4:30 and all the […]
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Tags: Buddhism, graveyard, Honen-in, Kyoto, Philsopher's Walk, rain, sculpture, temple, 哲学の道, 寺, 法然院, 京都
