down the timeline

2015-12-11 – Friday – 17:05:13

Between giant stone walls to Hyakunin-bansho 百人番所, “hundred-man guardhouse”, against the cityscape.

in your eyes

2015-12-09 – Wednesday – 23:57:19

A view of the Fujimi-yagura 富士見櫓 (“Mt Fuji viewing keep”), one of the few remaining keeps of the inner citadel of what was originally the Edo Castle 江戸城.

the only way

2015-12-05 – Saturday – 23:05:17

To the expansive East Gardens via the Kikyō gate 桔梗門, as the guides quietly elaborated the history of the structure.

awash

2015-12-02 – Wednesday – 00:08:18

Through a Japanese black pine, kuromatsu 黒松, with a training reminiscent of coral. Japanese gardens feel like they could be from deep under water, a reef pushed up by seismic activity, swaying in currents of air.