Desert Flower
If we are living
in a world where even tears have run dry,
let us send the wind,
scatter water into the air,
and make flowers bloom.
Still believing
in the magic of fashion.
Autumn Scent
Perhaps from Asia.
Perhaps from somewhere else.
It carried a gentle fragrance,
and with it,
the first signs of autumn.
We welcomed its arrival
with a scarf drifting in the air.
1900
You chose a stubborn path
without ever learning the meaning of love.
Yet this song revealed
that you had already carried
more love within you
than you ever knew.
Solitude and Embrace
Otemachi, the economic heart of Japan.
What keeps generations of office workers returning is the relentless curiosity of a chef, always searching for the next expression of flavor.
The house-made salsiccia is a signature, of course. But the carefully selected seasonal seafood is just as compelling a reason to return. I have always loved their eggplant and tomato spaghetti.
My beloved solitude, embraced by food.
A Detective's Absence
A detective in search of love
drifted into Atami.
Then, he disappeared.
I turned my lens toward the places
where he was said to have been.
Sensing traces of his presence,
I photographed them with the strange feeling
that it might all have been a dream.