Showing posts with label preservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preservation. Show all posts

Sunday, September 1, 2013

KUMANO SHRINE: Shimenawa




Kumano Shrine ~ 

old shimenawa
soiled shide in the breeze
abandoned prayers

KUMANO SHRINE: Ceiling Art




Kumano Shrine ~


faded shapes above
visions of centuries past
from Hearn’s ghostly world

Sunday, August 18, 2013

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?