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Wednesday, 17 December 2014

everyday food rituals


















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Labels: people, restaurants

Thursday, 6 November 2014

buddhas everywhere






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Labels: buddha

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

monk kettle at the Nanshuji Temple














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Labels: tea, temple

Tuesday, 19 August 2014

a different background for green






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Labels: modern architecture, osaka

Monday, 11 August 2014

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Labels: wonders at the street corner

Friday, 8 August 2014

smiling forest, flooded with light













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Labels: landscape

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

summer steps





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Labels: gardens, ladies in kimono

Saturday, 5 July 2014

cherry tree for consolation










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Labels: cherry trees, waka

Thursday, 22 May 2014

modern and ancient












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Labels: japanese house

Thursday, 15 May 2014

colourful play

























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Labels: children, flowers

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”)






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Labels: everyday, people

Friday, 9 May 2014

more celebrating, then :-)






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Labels: flowers

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

and everything was joyful













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Labels: gardens, water

Saturday, 3 May 2014

sweet sunset















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Labels: children, water

Tuesday, 22 April 2014

preparing a flower arrangement, in the kitchen





























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Labels: flowers, japanese house, reiko

Thursday, 17 April 2014

those hands of love

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Friday, 11 April 2014

do flowers pray as well?

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Labels: light, quiet, temple

Friday, 4 April 2014

the future





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Labels: people, rituals

Monday, 24 March 2014

red rituals (to ward off dark spirits)














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Labels: red, shinto, shrine

Saturday, 15 March 2014

the priestess






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Tuesday, 11 March 2014

the way of the incense













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Labels: temple

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

the quiet everyday






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Labels: street

Saturday, 22 February 2014

spring ceremony





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Labels: tea ceremony, vases

Monday, 10 February 2014

temple visitors

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Wednesday, 29 January 2014

quiet glaze














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Labels: flowers, pottery, vases

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

when the lotus becomes empty
























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Labels: lotus, water

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

moments of an afternoon walk

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Labels: ladies in kimono

Thursday, 2 January 2014

colourful new year














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Labels: colourful, fish, tree
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