Showing posts with label jochi--ji. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jochi--ji. Show all posts
July 2, 2025
June 30, 2022
April 3, 2022
Spring garden: Jochi-ji
In the small humble garden where seasonal plants and trees grow as they naturally are, I found a flower assortment of yellow-mitsumata, white apricot, and pink peach, which represented the incoming of spring in Kita-kamakura.
The bright yellow flowers are yellow-mitsumata. Its bundles of cottony flower-buds sprout in the form of a tiny toy handball in the beginning of February, and keep growing quietly in the height of the harsh season.
Around the middle of March, as the warmth and sunlight of spring increase, these small yellow buds begin to bloom all together like dear children smiling joyfully and to emit a pleasant aroma, quietly heralding the arrival of long-expected spring.
February 20, 2022
November 21, 2021
A gate into autumnal tints: Jochi-ji
Being aware of the ending of late autumn, living things begin to hastily prepare for enduring the harsh winter.
Like the setting sun which shines flamingly just before sinking in the sea, the declined leaves of trees are turning into the blazing colors of fire, waiting for the time to flutter down in the chilly wind.
The subtle and exquisite chemistry of nature causes the dazzling flood of autumnal tints, which makes me find the wonders of life appearing stealthily in the passage of the seasons.
September 28, 2021
October 24, 2020
March 11, 2020
June 20, 2019
March 29, 2019
March 3, 2019
June 20, 2018
Bamboo grove: Jochi-ji
Thanks to the favorable rainfall and temperature of this season, the bamboo grove continues growing abundantly.
The dense blades and tall stems are trembling lightly in the mild breeze, which lets me know that this bamboo grove is full of the true joy of living.
May 13, 2018
March 24, 2018
August 27, 2017
Bamboo grove: Jochi-ji
The whole body of a bamboo grove is one single living organism and all of its stems are interlinked underground by its cobweb-like roots.
The subtle divergence of nature conditions in a grove brings about a delicate change in the color and form of each growing bamboo stem.
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