catching the sunlight

inside the night cloud

sasabeni the moon

I was fortunate enough to have a lovely chat to author Lesley Downer earlier this week, author of The Last Concubine, among other delightful works. Something which came up in our chat was the practice of 'sasabeni' (笹紅: bamboo rouge) a shimmering lip lacquer with an iridescent greeny tint, which was applied to the bottom lip by exquisitely dressed ladies in the late Edo period. We wondered whether the trend had originated in the court, the aristocracy or in the infamous Yoshiwara...

This moon has a touch of sasabeni about it.

low (hush)

stone talk

echoes of spring

the beginning and end of all things

(your universe goes from here, to here)

kumo-no-ko

right here!

sleep: the poor man's time travel

looking up

oh!

three days of summer

sometimes i just can't decide...

...whether i'm a flower of a cloud

cloud hopping

another from the back catalogue - this time for all of you who keep asking me for shoes:)
and some more things over at wisteria station too!

no use talking to the snow

wafting

these birds are...

these birds are...

no use talking to the rain