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

MIDNIGHT IN A KATAYAMAZU GRAVEYARD

MIDNIGHT IN A KATAYAMAZU GRAVEYARD - 

Hearn would have liked it.

STARRY NIGHT IN A KATAYAMAZU GRAVEYARD

IN A KATAYAMAZU GRAVEYARD

starry starry night
not even a semi stirs
“Ghostly,” whispers Hearn

ONIWA HOTEL

ONIWA HOTEL ~ 

oniwa hotel

tanuki and spiders wa

now the only guests

AN ELEGANT FAN

an elegant fan

for fashionable ladies

on the JR Line

FIELD OF FLOWERS: Kumano Shrine

FIELD OF FLOWERS

All the brightness and color of youth now fades,

turns brown and withers away.

Autumn approaches quickly...too quickly.

So, I suppose, it is with all of us