Fantastic Suwa Trip DAY3.

the crown prince dress up doll! amazing.

 this transom of cobweb means that after this, it is to be private zone.

In conclusion, Suwa is awesome.

Fantastic Suwa Trip DAY 2.

where Daimyos' stayed as a hotel back in Edo period.

still really nice.

result was just OK. but oh well.

there was festival going on.

a lot of public baths in Shimo-Suwa.

and a lot of cat too.

how pretty! cherry blossom was full bloom everywhere.

 many kinds of Sake in Shrine, so unlike from church.

this is called "Banji-no-Sekibutsu", which means "Buddha which makes everything will be alright". I love it.

Taro Okamoto loved this image of buddha. I know what he means, it is so original.

local young designers try to reflourish town.

another example.

I tried right one and it says "nothing can be established when you are hungry". :)

creative, avant-garde, comfy and chilling. wished I could live there.

My Little Fantastic Suwa Trip DAY 1.

absolutely love this map.

designed by renowned architect, Terunobu Fujimori. 

This is called "Flying-muddy-boat". 

and this is "Takasugi-An", the too-high-humble-cottage.

how surrealistic, local people are actually plowing a field there! 

love the color <3 

old hospital in front of our inn.

Wish that i could just sit there and get indulged in idle speculation for a whole day.

very very old public bath(!)

at night, it glows which reminds me of an asylum depicted in "Otomodachi", by Fumiko Takako.

Suwa lake at night. pretty blue.

Animism, or where something aethereal surely lives.

I never had believed anything spiritual, 

nor I never had been interested in any place called "Power Spot", 

until, I got to Suwa-taisha shrine in Nagano.

as soon as I reached there, I felt something divine, transcendent there.

i cannot see, nor i cannot describe very well, but i knew it was.

it is so different from how i used to feel in any other shrine or temple, or church in Europe.

When I was there, standing, 

listening to the leaves trembling in the breeze of spring,

I felt my spirit with nature, be precise, I exist only in extension of nature.

they are originally not to be separated, 

however we tend to forget it in our daily lives in this busy world.

it was when, the world and myself were the same.

  

a bouquet for a bit belated farewell.