Japan: Day 8b

 

Adachi Museum of Art:

Guide: Every day the staff go out for an hour to check the garden and keep everything clean.
The garden designed to be seen through windows. Gardens with mountain backdrop framed by the windows. Not to enter. All plants rocks water arranged. Controlled. Planned. Not natural. Beautiful.

Founder of the museum: A garden is thought of as a living canvas.

I have learnt something about Japan. And now I know more about Tas. In Tas we worship nature wild natural and free. We fight against development that affects environment values that affects natural world. We assume man-made is bad.
Japan they can’t conceive of natural wilderness. Nature is to be bent shaped moulded until it is beautiful.

A cow is to be kept indoors until its meat is soft and tender. No free grazing. No natural browsing. No enjoyment.

Bonsai is deformed stunted trees with limbs held down or up until they look beautiful. The tree never fruits.  Not living a natural free happy in a sustainable environment. The caged tree exists as beautiful object. A fashion piece in a high-rise block of apartments.

Japan: Day 8

Museum of Photography: Sensational composed ad-lib photographs. The photographer spent his whole life in his hometown. Built a studio. Composed photography. All portraits composed. Not spontaneous or natural. Arranged. Planned. Beautiful. 

No photos of the composed photos so we have to create our own composed photos.

 

Japan: Day 7

 

Today we leave Kanazawa. Aboard a super-express train.

We stop at Okayama for a tour of Koraken Garden. Completed in 1700. Teahouses scattered throughout the garden built by successive rulers. The garden is designed in the scenic promenade style which gives visitors  a new view of the garden at every turn of the many paths which connect the lawns, ponds, hills, teahouses and streams.

We arrive at Kurashiki home of the Ohara Museum of Art. No photos.

Japan: Day 6b

A day in Kanazawa by the Japan Sea.

Visit a Museum of Contemporary Art. We are allowed to photograph one instillation. People walking under a pool.

Visit a beautiful garden for a private tea ceremony in the tea house.

 

Japan: Day 6

 A day in Kanazawa by the Japan Sea.

We visit the Kenrokuen Garden which is stunningly beautiful. Dating from the Seventh Century. The ropes on the branches are to protect the branches from the weight of the snow. Abundant water. Stone bridges.

According to the designers. The garden combines the six attributes of a perfect landscaped garden. Spaciousness. Seclusion. Artifice. Antiquity. Watercourses. Panoramas.

 

 

Japan: Day 5

 We stay overnight in our hotel by Mt Fuji.

We wake and walk by the lake then travel by Bullet Train to the city of Kanazawa.

Japan: Day 4

Today we travel towards Mt Fuji via a train.

We visit a couple of museums. That feature dolls and fabric-dying. No photos.

We hop in a cable car for iconic views of the clouds covering Mt Fuji.

From our hotel we are able to view Mt Fuji.