Shima Hotspring

Prison

Komazawa Twin Water Tower

Old Housing Complex in Aoyama

When I was a kid, I was so scared of Tetrapods

Maybe its figure, maybe the way they are piled up by the sea,
but I really cannot explain why they freaked me out that much.
I guess they have got something which makes people feel unease and anxious.
When I came over here, it made me feel that way I felt when I came across those Tetrapods.
It is not just because this is huge and built so high above, 
That color, its height, geometrical shapes, all of those suddenly threw over me the fear of living itself...,
Just like it is showing me the side we are trying not to see everyday, 
the life is how cruel, terrifying and endangered, of this peculiarly concrete and essential manner. 

Otanida Housing Complex

In this windy, cloudy day, we explored the hidden resort by the abandoned ship.

 

Taichung Tea room

無為草堂, 

I'd been longing for visiting this magical place

located in Taichung city, as soon as I got to know the name of it.

Once you stepped into this hidden gem of tranquility in the middle of the bustling city central,

It is completely a different world while you feel it is not something apart from the real lives;

but something lively exists in the extension of it. 

It is a place of surreality while it is purely a place of locale's daily lives. 

you'll know what it means from the name of the tea room;

"無為", the word of  Lao‐tse Lao‐tzu, which is literally translated as "Doing nothing",

does not necessarily mean it. 

It is rather something which should be interpreted as "Being Natural",

which immediately reminds me of the word "自然", 

one of the major themes repeatedly refered in Natsume Soseki's works.

Following your very own nature sometimes seems so difficult and hard in Tokyo;

while everything seemed so simple and there's nothing complicated while I was there somehow.

It is not the easy positivity, but certain generosity which does not judge or discriminate ins and outs.

Taiwan is the country where makes me feel that way. 

and probably that is why I like it there so much.