Joy of Beauty

Culture

Places, objects, and gestures encountered along the way.

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Eight traditional dancers in a horizontal procession against black

Dancer ProcessionJavanese Court Dances踊り手の行列

Five Japanese bottles with calligraphic labels against black, Kyoto, Japan

KYOTO, JAPAN日本・京都

Japanese breakfast in blue-and-white ceramic dishes on a red lacquer tray

Japanese Breakfast和朝食

Colorful handmade paper crane offerings hanging in dense strands around a Japanese memorial sign

Paper Crane OfferingsJapan奉納された折り鶴

Pale green diamond lattice before vermilion timber walls and a softly lit shoji screen

Through the LatticeJapan格子越しの風景

White paper fortunes tied beneath a Japanese sign, with a mossy tree and vermilion shrine behind

Tied Paper FortunesJapan結ばれたおみくじ

Cream flower spires, burgundy blossoms and fine grasses beneath a dusky sky

Garden at DuskLocation unconfirmed夕暮れの庭

Irregular stones and patterned pale gravel in a Zen garden outside Tokyo, Japan

Zen GardenOutside Tokyo, Japan禅の庭

Golden and gray koi beneath rippling pond reflections in Japan

KoiJapan鯉

A closer look · Kyoto, Japan

Arashiyama Bamboo Forest

Five views into the grove.

Three foreground bamboo stalks framing the deep grove — 嵐山の竹林

Silver-green bamboo columns rising above fine dry branches — 嵐山の竹林

Amber and muted purple bamboo among silver-green stalks — 嵐山の竹林

A small white mushroom on the leaf-strewn bamboo forest floor — 嵐山の竹林

Curving tree branches contrasting with vertical bamboo — 嵐山の竹林