A collaboration with an NHK Photo

wet parasols

Yoshiwara blossoms

wintered journey

Abdication?

its reign withering

after 28 years

ah!       Chrysanthemum 

reluctant   Foliage (Akihito)

reluctance budding (Naruhito)

Another example of jikuzo-shi poetry from my book entitled JIKU, available at Amazon & Blurb.com

musical medicant?

enticingly crisp sounds

playing in the snow

Woodblock print by Hiroshige

Spring Kimonos

Edo's blossoming (to) day

IMPERIAL CREST

A Meiji aesthetic

eternal      Cherry Blossoms