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Fr. Ronald Hatton's avatar

Beautiful! I look forward to your posts everyday!

SHIMIZU Akira's avatar

Thank you always for viewing my posts, and I truly appreciate your support for my publications.

Robert Walrod's avatar

Good work, as always.

SHIMIZU Akira's avatar

Thank you! I always appreciate you viewing at my photos.

Shiro Tanaka's avatar

Wisteria also can grow in America and I had some vines in my yard but not as gorgeous as this.

SHIMIZU Akira's avatar

I took these photos in a place known for its wisteria, so the views were especially spectacular.

Jim🧯🇰🇼🌲's avatar

It looks like a garden cultivated specifically to create that flowers-like-falling-rain. Perhaps like the avenues of trees cultivated largely for their cherry blossoms? I don't know if there is a term for this Japanese love of the falling blossom, but it seems like it is a core quality of being Japanese. Perhaps the Japanese love of the camera is related: a desire to depict the ephemeral beauty, as you have done here with Wisteria, which I've of course seen, but never like this.

If I had a cup of warm sake, I'd raise it to you.

SHIMIZU Akira's avatar

As you say, Japanese people may have a strong tendency to perceive beauty in the way flowers fall, and your point about the connection between the transience of beauty and the Japanese love of cameras resonated with me.

Buzen's avatar

藤 Wisteria are so beautiful when, I always feel slightly letdown when a walk through a trellis in the wrong season because I’m missing the blooms. Nice photos.

SHIMIZU Akira's avatar

Thank you! The shorter the flowering period, the more beautiful they are.

Jim🧯🇰🇼🌲's avatar

This is so quintessentially Japanese, I think: seeing beauty in the evanescent.

The Black Knight's avatar

Why does it look so great? Wholesome. This is why. It is because you are an avatar of wholesomeness itself :D

SHIMIZU Akira's avatar

Thank you! I haven't done anything that would qualify me to be called an "avatar of wholesomeness", but I feel very honored. (^O^)

The Black Knight's avatar

You would be surprised :D

Jim🧯🇰🇼🌲's avatar

Perhaps these hint of Kannon's hair as she walks in beauty, or her tears for the fallen world.

SHIMIZU Akira's avatar

Purple has been considered a noble color in Japan since ancient times, so your expression makes sense.