Tag: horimatsu

Recollection

Recollection

When staying at Shunko-in, a subtemple at the large Myoshin-ji Rinzai Zen temple complex in Kyoto, we attended several zazen (seated meditation) sessions led by …

 

Kyoto Urban Landscape

Kyoto Urban Landscape

Early morning view from the place outside the gates of the Myoshinji Zen temple complex where I used to have my morning cigarette. Me and …

 

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 …

 

Hiroshima. Two ghosts on a bench in the park talk about times past and summers to come.

 

Zen life, Ueno park, Tokyo. Perhaps a chance meeting with the ghost of Yamaoka Tesshu…. Warm and sticky darkness chases the moon up high. A man plays …

 

September. Early evening at Nakamura-sans studio/house outside Fukuoka. It’s not yet even an hour since we arrived by train from Yokohama. Kazuyoshi, Horikitsune, Horikazu and …

 

At the studio of Nakamura San, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.