Monday, August 3, 2020

(2160) Growing in a country without bamboo...

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...and with martial arts full of references to them as symbols of flexibility and suppleness, every time I see them (and there are plenty in Japan) I'm always a little moved -enough to write a "Letter from a floating world" about them some time ago. Here a small thicket in Ueno's Shhinobazu Pond with their leaves wet from the morning mist. 

(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).

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