Western Journey

          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.

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In my western journey, I saw Harmony with nature ahead of humanism such as Prosperity or Decline.

 

 2010

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