mt. seida
March 2022
time to wash and repair the sweaters that kept me warm during the long cold winter (thanks to karin!)
February 2022
January 2022
shukufukuya no tetchan climbed my mountain with his wishes for the new year
December 2021
おおばらい
the man who cut yukio mishimas hair
shimoda old town
November 2021
a word to covid-bound would-be international travellers:
you can circumvent the world in your chair
did some real work!
dreamy autumn morning
October 2021
my october life
morning has broken
September 2021
THE ROAD TO THE RIVER or THE FOOL IN THE POOL
This happened last year
Then last month
effectively closing the road to Goshodaira, again making the old hideaway of Prince Munenaga accessible only to those on foot
and allowing nature to reclaim the land for its ten-thousand creatures
whose timeless joy is momentarily interrupted
by the battle cry
of a mad human
plunging into the old pool
古池やあほう飛び込む鬨(とき)の声 祭文
sebastians cat
今日クール便で届いた贈物
松本(あがたの森)
update on the very hungry caterpillars
初秋
August 2021
残暑
淋しいお盆
ミンミンゼミ
the very hungry caterpillars
July 2021
御所平プール
early summer harvests
Hintergartenspaziergang
河童歌舞伎+東北鹿(しし)舞
ローカル線
ode to a red bergamot
you brighten my hour
you beautiful flower
as i toil in the heat
it is you that i greet
and to you
that i dedicate my day
June 2021
忍者部屋
能登島 road
parapluies de 総持寺
窓岩 sunset
May 2021
lazy day
香煙場
old asian guy with little granddaughter
(taken on karins sumaho)
樽本の滝
west wing. but perhaps i should call it the pink room, theres already a black one. yes, i should be dong airbnb.
川子守り
boys' day
祐源寺
(都子ちゃん作)
April 2021
boy at the doors of piggotts hall
芽生え
another sunday
howzat!
桃源郷の上蔵(わぞ)
watched fellini's satyricon last night. turns out that petronius's novel is set in the vicinity of pozzuoli, where i had a memorably boozy lunch with my cousin several years ago. the only photo that i have of that colourful day shows graffiti on the platform of the tiny seaside station (lucrino) from where we got the train back to naples.
terrace house 2
March 2021
birthday boy!
terrace house
balade du printemps
the view from my bed on an early spring morning
pisces
February 2021
enjoyed an active sunday gathering and composting leaves for this years veggie garden
simon farmer
trip to izu peninsula, early february
January 2021
walk to the winter bus
my life
these days i seem to be taking an awful lot of photos from my room looking out of the window. actually this is something that i tend to do wherever i am. the above three pics are from naples a few years back.
fenestral moments from the era of get-on-a-plane-and-go international travel
this one too i like. taken from the room of my 4-star berlin hotel.
generously spacious room in a 2-star hotel in the countryside around malpensa airport milan. it felt like a set from pasolinis movie theorem. i liked it so much i went back again the next year.
bobo b&b in marseilles recommended by the guardian. i used to watch the couple who lived in one of the apartments opposite take it in turns to come out onto the balcony to enjoy a smoke.
dawn breaks at andy & fionas house in norwich. very english.
heres a cutey. my preferred pic of simon in old age. time: 2017. since then its been pretty much downhill. the location was warsaw airport, where i was changing planes to return to japan.
FIN
morning sonata
the walk from kamasawa to goshodaira heads due east. making my way up the gentle slope of the mountain road i gazed back to where the sun had just set
西見れば春来つつある錯覚を
old photo of my grandad that recently turned up. he is sitting on the ground bottom left. i wrote about him back in November 2019. see WORDS.
性の神の社(どんど焼き)
monochrome
drunken chimney sweep
December 2020
大晦日
finger/handprints of assorted grandchildren collected on my front window over the last twelve months.
その後
men at work
寒波
philomena's dancing palm trees + recycled lampshade
it snowed yesterday but todays going to be warm
(裏庭から撮った写真)
November 2020
dont have any phone photos of the suemarr concert (saimontei audiences just wanna enjoy the music). but do have these of the next morning when i sent him off on his travels with a van load of firewood for a saitama friend. oshika-style.
suemarr wrote:
無事にツアーを終えて帰宅しました。
ツアー中、車の中は、ずっと樹木の香りに満ちていました。toni & kayo
by hiro
the path home
達磨さん朝を迎えて海潮寺 祭文
船旅
マイ障子
October 2020
lazy saturday
香煙場 or 公園場
釜沢、越田(こえだ)
my room
body language
blue health
len_and_toni
牧場
(no wild grapes to harvest this year)
renaisssance lady
September 2020
彼岸花
秋野菜
i found an abandoned bus by this beautiful stretch of the koshibugawa. it gave me an idea...
秋の川
初秋
朝顔の朝
夜明け前
August 2020
カボチャの実
カボチャの花
日陰
(the cool road to the river)
玄関
駿木城
washday
July 2020
森林で摘みて飾りし野生ユリ 祭文
#notoshikamura
no, im not in provence! just hijacking a friends holiday pics to bring a little sunshine into my own life.
便所花
(小さな)オオムラサキ
アイ沢
June 2020
two photos by dear friends
addisons walk. oxford
(tim may)
kamasawa street scene
(katharina koitz)
さつきスナップ
野麦峠
teatime
能登島 The perfect holiday: find a nice secluded spot, park the car, put up the tent and take it easy.
江馬氏 The Ema were a small clan that held power in the mountaineous Hida region during medieval times. This reconstruction of their mansion in Kamioka contains the remains of a fine Zen rock garden. It is located midway between Oshika and the Noto penisula.
May 2020
首巻
初夏
eastwing
役場Blvd
April 2020
kids play (photo by karin)
千人塚
昔の小日陰銅山 (old copper mine)
折草峠下
落花
高遠藩標柱
早春
March 2020
寒光
寒雲
bluesheet
TOAST!
February 2020
29 FEB
欅
another day
現実
dream
sunday
slo life
ojai
old torrance
glendale
uncorked
lifeguard
180th
January 2020
hermosa
chuckingouttime at the grammys
downtown
avenue at middleharnis (l.a. version)
baie des anges 2
おふだんの日
*
le hussard sur le toit
宗良親王
waldweg
どんど焼き
机
deutschstunde
vollmond
textures 3
kamasawaa 2020
olbia 2019
*
Κρόνος
大祓後
yoon
weihnachtsfrühstück
snowshine
bläulicheingeschneit
ケィティカキクウ
ともちゃんすまちゃん
杣ノ平(そまのたいら)
くろんた街道下
供花
black mountain
November 2019
初冬
スーマー and 裏方
感謝祭
deep snow in tokyo
深夜祭文亭
円通殿
bookman
晩秋
stagemaking/winemaking
モーニング娘
蒲
白池
道の駅族
蓮華温泉
往先2
往先1
往く道2
往く道 1
八坂仏
仏、道祖神、猿の多い八坂坂村(人間は少ないけど)
for anyone interested there is a charming video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q45CLyr63qg/
八坂仲良し
八坂猿
October 2019
halloween
cru
mimicry
秋季例祭
朕donna
ちんどん屋
ヒゲナガカミキリ
裏庭
big牧場
petit jardin
September 2019
広河原
piccolopianista
neatness
薪配布
herbstmond
入沢井
径
black
bärenbach
textures 2
August 2019
秋宮
川辺
脱穀
three
one
verdensmestere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5tWPOTWIUA&t=8073s/
2:22:00 Nunc Dimittis by Arvo Pärt
palermo
orange
grandkids
faces of hara tomohiko
at saimontei
by jeremy angel
toni
summer life 1
summer life 2
photos from saimontei weekend by 吳文璇July 2019
前夜
舞台
snaps from mikawa
魔法使
放浪
高月院
法話
親氏
寶榮座
大雨
roggenernte
June 2019
雑
念
三
昧
kartoffelblüten
白州
oisivité
朝霧
天パx2
May 2019
Sado album
素浜
一宮
早朝
ワカメ採り
貝塚
帰路
蛾
butterfly
diagonal
大魚
客間
豪邸
blue
mayday
April 2019
お稽古
red
path
diminutivo
textures
below are some nostalgic snaps from my defunct google+ site
winter
summer
autumn
spring
rome
spring road
summer road
brothers
cloud
mountains
river
family
garden
tree
forest
town
rain
sun
sunset
sunrise
tenryugawa
river tiber
highway
pirates
workers
fashion
kids
grown-ups
lunch
performance
babies
friends
festival
roman
naples
rione sanità
villa d'agostino
kamasawa
matsukawa
shinjuku
visitor
parade
repairs
在宅
右馬允