Category Archive: yokohama

Yokohama

Luckiness

Luckiness

My old camera, a Nikon D200, getting blessed by the priest at the buddhist Fudo Myoo temple in Yokohama. September 2009.

 

Attentive.

Attentive.

April 2010. Yokohama, japan. Cold morning walk to Horiyoshi III’s studio. The ash from an icelandic volcano had extended my stay.

 

yokohama salary man

yokohama salary man

While photographing for a book on irezumi master Horiyoshi III of Yokohama last summer,  I captured this on the way to the yodobashi camera store.  …

 

List of Zen Books That Passed Beneath The Eye of Horimatsu (incomplete).

List of Zen Books That Passed Beneath The Eye of Horimatsu (incomplete).

And in no particular order; Zen-Direct Pointing to Reality by Anne Bancroft. Published by Thames and Hudson. Dewdrops on a Lotusleaf-Zen Poems of Ryokan by John Stevens. …

 

The photography of Paul Hansen.

The photography of Paul Hansen.

More often than ever nowadays, it’s clear to me that Irezumi, writing and photography are not separate from one and other. After all, they’re all …

 

Horikitsune brandishing his Irezumi as well as his photographic skills at Horiyoshi III’s studio august last year.

 

Subtle.

Subtle.

My Iphone arrived yesterday, and I have spent some 24 hours falling in love with it. This little miracle machine has become a digital extension …

 

Yokohama street, August 2009.