PAINTING OF A PAINTED WALL: Tajimi, Japan

A watercolor of a window featuring local cermaics, that was itself painted on the wall of a brick building in the village of Ichinokura, in the city of Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture. By Hayato Tokugawa

KUMONO SHRINE: BAA SAKURA

Kumano Shrine ~

baa sakura

lonely national treasure

no one strokes her hair

KUMANO SHRINE: The first of a series

KUMANO SHRINE. (Based on a photograph by Aoi Tokugawa). 

No one comes here any longer. 

The shrine slowly weathers and crumbles into dust.

 Are we so advanced that we can forget the kami?