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Western Journey
Camera
Tachihara4×5, NikonD3200
Period
2008~2013
願わくは花のもとにて春死なむ そのきさらぎの望月のころ 西行
西に行くこと、つまりあの世の浄土を求めて旅をすること。
私にとって旅をするということは、純粋な魂に戻り、自身を探していくことであり、そして写真を撮る理由は、その心をイメージの上で理解したいからだと思う。
繁栄、そして崩壊。文明はいつもこうして繰り返されてきた。私は、その二つの間には“調和”があるということを理解した。
Let me die in spring under the blossoming trees,
let it be around that full moon of Kisaragi month.
In ancient Japan, Saigyō Hōshi expressed this poem. His pen name “Saigyō” means “western journey” that is to be asked to die facing West, to be welcomed by the Buddha.
But, in his western journey, he realized that a sense of the evanescence of life is equal to the ephemeral time of falling cherry blossoms. And finally, he found the Buddhism in the nature.
The reason why I am doing photography is such a thing. I always back to the pure soul when I go traveling. And hopefully, I understand my Buddhism through the photography.
In my western journey, I saw Harmony with nature ahead of humanism such as Prosperity or Decline.





























