This is a shot of Nagano Prefecture’s Lake Suwa just after sunset. The statue is of Princess Yaegaki, who is a key figure in Honcho Nijushiko. Honcho Nijushiko is a five-act drama that was first performed in 1766. At the end of the story, Yaegaki walks across a frozen Lake Suwa to save her lover from a violent death.
Jammed securely into this chamber–three
by five–of numberless numbers, dripping
like Inga in August, my flushed ears listen
to the roar of reticence that permeates
our hive of heavy bodies.
Eyes oscillate between clocks and computers
as fingers flutter and shoulders shake beside
document drenched desks.
At five o’clock, smiles spread thinly over our
flagging faces, even though, for us, the road
to home leads nowhere.
A Miko (shrine maiden) in Nara Park observes the people around her
Nara, Japan-2015年7月26日
sundry folly 