Category: Kyoto

Along with projection mapping, the nighttime production of light and sound by Naked Flowers at Nijo Castle this year featured this wall used as …

Can a flower be naked? Could you dress a flower? I suppose anything’s possible. But that’s beside the point. Naked Flowers is a company …

Among other things, the smartphone and social media have dramatically altered life for teenagers, especially for girls. I can tell from …

Within the past decade, projection mapping has taken the nighttime illuminations scene by storm in Japan. Rather than static lights basically …

Kyoto Station is a place I keep revisiting because there’s always something new to discover there. And not just the seasonal decorations …

I once heard that a student decided to count the torii gates at Fushimi Inari Grand Shrine. The paths up the mountain are covered with …

Yasaka Pagoda is among Kyoto’s many heavily photographed sights. Rather than reproduce something that’s already all over Instagram, I’d rather …

The renovations at Higashi Honganji Temple are nearly complete, and …

The city of Kyoto, Japan’s capital from 794 to 1868, was designed according to a grid pattern that originated in China. Today’s Kyoto Station …

Spaces can feel very confined in Japan. Very busy. Very exciting. Very different from suburban Texas where I grew up. But that’s one of many …

I was setting up my camera for a long exposure shot at Kyoto Station when these two guys came over and struck up a conversation. They asked me …

This is Nijo Castle. Where’s the castle, you ask? That’s what most visitors wonder. There used to be a keep, but it burned down when it was …