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Jun. 30, 2025
[Image1]This is not a road to overlook or a shrine to look up to, but a path that I chose to gaze from

This is not a road to overlook or a shrine to look up to, but a path that I chose to gaze from "sideways" among the Inari mountains.
The repeated torii gates along the way form a curve that slowly disappears into the distance between the forests, allowing people to silently step into a time and space where history and faith are intertwined. Color is no longer just decoration, but part of space: vermilion is like blood, forest green is like soul.

This path may not be a stairway to the future, but a quiet flow of people in the deepest part of the spiritual world.

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This photograph was taken at Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto, where the winter morning sun spills over the ridge and illuminates the thousand-year-old wooden structure supported by 139 logs. Standing on the stage, you can feel not only the ultimate of architectural craftsmanship, but also the accumulation of thousands of years of faith and life. The prayers of the crowd, the lingering of cigarettes, and the baptism of sunlight seem to transform this ancient building from a static structure into a flowing container of time. This is not just a temple, but the embodiment of "Dancing with Faith" in Japanese culture.
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In this work, I chose to stand under the Inari Torii and look up at the stone steps leading to the depths of the mountain forest. Sunlight pours down through the gaps in the torii gate, leaving bright marks on the stairs, like the footprints of gods. The torii gate is not just a building, but also a "boundary" - it distinguishes between the mundane and the divine, the mortal and the faithful. The staircase in the center of the picture leads people into the unknown but sacred situation. In the quiet forest, light becomes the only sound. It is not noisy, but powerful, just like our inner awe and exploration of the unknown.

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