Walking in Japan - a study on folklore, traditions and Shinto

A Mind On The Brink Of Collapse

Here's an album photo I've made about a four weeks trip to Japan. An explanation is linked with each picture. Hope you enjoy it http://goo.gl/i8lz8H

There's probably no place like Japan to anyone who cares about imagination, craft and storytelling. In the summer of 2014, I crossed some parts of it with my camera.


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Festivals (Matsuri, or Omatsuri) play a big part in the album. It became opportunities to vampirize bites of japanese arteries. They were the best opportunity to steal the beauty of asian face, and then let's hope a bit of their soul with it.

Buddhist's statuary also became a very high interest. These muted beings of stone offer a language of their own, speaking the words of people's cultural conversation with the heavens. They give a voice to unheard histories of places and those who identify with them. Mountains travelers are greeted by silent figures, but also through them they meet the livings, those around and unseen, the caretakers and their beliefs.

At first glance, it seems Japan have a very special relationship with fertility (Jizos Bosatsus, Kannon, Amithaba, and others will show that). What is central, it seems, is "the life to come". That's why the trip, and all images are an homage to the Jizos and Kannon.

Here's once again the link for the album.

http://goo.gl/i8lz8H

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