Japan

Click here to view this artwork, Ten Thousand Gateways | Kyoto, and its currently available sizes. Ten Thousand Gateways | Kyoto The ancient city of Kyoto is home to some 1600 Buddhist temples and more than 400 Shinto shrines. Dating back to 711 A.D., Fushimi Inari has been dedicated to the Shinto god of [...]

Click here to view this artwork, Eriashi | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Eriashi | Japan With precision, the aspiring geisha, known as a maiko, meticulously practices the iconic makeup application, including the sacred ritual of drawing eriashi (neck lines), the two vertical lines drawn that leave the nape of the neck exposed symbolizing not [...]

Click here to view this artwork, Whispers of Spring | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Whispers of Spring | Japan When I came across this image when editing work from my recent trip to Japan, I first thought of porcelain. Then, I remembered their humanness when seeing these young women in the flesh, in real life. These [...]

Click here to view this artwork, Sakura's Passage | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Sakura's Passage | Japan I traveled in early April to Japan with one primary purpose. I was eager to document the Sakura blossoms that arrive each spring and are widely—and wildly—celebrated in the country. Although these glorious blossoms appear at about [...]