Geisha hiding behind shop curtains in Gion, Kyoto, Japan.
I spotted this Geisha as I strolled through Gion, Kyoto on a sunny Autumn afternoon. She wears a kimono decorated with momiji.
Autumn in Kyoto is a feast of colour. This image is one of my favorites from my trip in November 2006. I hope you enjoy and if you like it enough, grab it as a print, you wont be dissapointed.
On a recent trip to Gifu, Kyoto, I was lucky enough to snap this Maiko (Geisha trainee), as she clip-clopped across a road in her geta.
The red gate tunnel of Fushimiinari. These gates are lined almost endless around the temple ground and are an amazing sight in Kyoto city.
Kyoto, Japan – June 2007 in summer. I could walk around for hours in the backstreets around Kiyomizu-dera.
A thoughtful moment during Kyoto’s famous Festival of Ages.
Umbrella, Kyoto, Japan / Colour digital image
This is an image I took in Kyoto, Japan in May of 2006
Geisha on a Mission in the city of Gion The training involved in becoming a Geisha is very rigorous, and because of this the numbers of Geisha are declining. Few young women in today’s society are willing to devote themselves to such demanding training. To become a Geisha, if accepted, a young girl must go through an apprenticeship that involves living with a head Geisha. This training period takes five to six years. During this time, the Geisha trainee must help with the chores and the running of the house, learn customs and social skills, and take music and dance lessons. After about six months, the trainee Geisha is called a maiko girl, and accompanies a Geisha on her appointments in order to become acquainted with customers. At about age 20, the maiko must make the decision to become a full-fledged Geisha or not. If a girl wishes to marry she cannot become a Geisha. This photo was taken on the streets of Gion deep within Kyoto at around 4pm, which is when Geshas finish their hours-long makeup and preparation routine and head over to the evening’s assignment. KYOTO, JAPAN / JUNE 2007
Images from Australia / Architecture / Images from Japan / Sunsets / Water Scenes
Images from Australia / Architecture / Images from Japan / Sunsets / Water Scenes
Images from Australia / Architecture / Images from Japan / Sunsets / Water Scenes
Burning incenses not only for the sweet smell it produces, also a sign of bleessing by washing the smoke over you to cleanse your spirit before enter the temple
Taken in Kyoto, Japan. It was a chilly autumn’s morning at the Golden Pavillion, (Kinkaku-ji) the Autumn colours creating a sensory overload. It was stunning. Now Published in Gaia, the Living Planet, page 10 :D / (thanks so much redbubble!!!)
Kyoto`s temples are filled with inspring scenes and places to photograph. It`s truly a photographer`s dream. The stone lantern was a great centre point for the picture and the ume naturally framed the lantern. I hope you enjoy it. !
This is Fushimi Inari in Kyoto. A Shinto Shrine with thousands of vermilion torii lining the paths on the hill on which the shrine is located. One of Kyoto’s oldest (founded in 711 AD) and most revered Shinto shrines, Fushimi Inari serves as the headquarters for all the 40,000 shrines dedicated to Inari across Japan. / Dedicated to Inari, the god of rice, sake, and prosperity. / It was featured in the film Memoirs of a Geisha.
Kinkakuji in Kyoto, Japan. Golden Pavilion Temple. It was originally built in 1397 to serve as a retirement villa for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, as part of his estate then known as Kitayama. His son converted the building into a Zen temple of the Rinzai school. The temple was burned down twice during the Ōnin War. The Golden Pavilion, or Kinkaku, is a three-story building on the grounds of the temple. The top two stories of the pavilion are covered with pure gold leaf. In 1950, the pavilion was burned down by a monk, who then attempted suicide on the hill behind the building. He survived, but during the investigation after the monk’s arrest, his mother was called in to talk with the police; on her way home, she committed suicide by jumping from her train into a river valley. The monk was sentenced to seven years in prison; he died of illness during his imprisonment in 1956. !
I.M. Pei’s Miho Museum, on a mountain ridge in a nature preserve in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, an hour’s drive from Kyoto. The Miho Museum houses Mihoko Koyama’s private collection of Asian and Western antiques belonging to Mihoko Koyama (after whom it is named), the heiress to the Toyobo textile business, and one of the richest women in Japan. This photo shows the tunnel leading into the museum that cuts through the mountain. It`s a 200-metre curve, silent and echoless, and ends with the cables of a half suspension bridge 120 meters across a deep, narrow gorge. Its a stunning museum. If you`re ever in Japan, please check out this hidden gem. !
Kyoto, Japan. One of Kyoto’s most picturesque and interesting locations. One of my favourites.
older work / from 2006 acrylic, collage and hand stitching on canvas / 76×52cm original painting is sold
Maikos at work in Kyoto near Yasaka Jinja on the way to Kiyomizu Dera. 舞妓さん
Kyoto, Japan.
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