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  • The rugged peak of Togakushi Mountain disappointing behind cloud on a snowy winter afternoon in northern Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
    Togakushi-Mountain-winter.jpg
  • Fog Rolling at dusk over the rocky shoreline of Little Cove, Georgian Bay, Ontario
    Little-Cove-foggy-evening.tiff
  • A traditional cedar and canvass Old Town canoe by moonlight and starlight at night on the shore of David Lake, Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
    night-canoe-lakeshore.tiff
  • The rolling shoreline of Lake Superior in golden morning light, Pukaskwa National Park.
    golden-sunrise-Lake-Superior.tiff
  • Dusk over Lake Superior, with the granite rocks of the Canadian Shield running down to the blue water.
    Lake-Superior-granite-shore.tiff
  • Morning reflection of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India
    Taj-Mahal-dawn-reflection.jpg
  • A bicycle parked in the arched verandah of a traditional house makes an interesting focal point in the "Blue City" of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
    blue-city-bicycle-Jodhpur.jpg
  • Detail of a wall and lantern at Yasaka Jinja Shrine, Kyoto, Japan
    SMALL-Kyoto-Yasaka-Shrine-lantern.jpg
  • Painted lions guard a ruined place door, Rajasthan, India.
    lion-doors-Rajasthani-ruin.jpg
  • A decorative Indian arched door in a ruined palace, bricked up with stones, Rajasthan, India.
    Rajasthani-ruins-door.jpg
  • Morning reflection of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India
    Taj-Mahal-morning-reflection.jpg
  • Side view of the Taj Mahal with sandstone and marble, Agra, India
    Taj-Mahal-architecture.jpg
  • Jaluit Atoll from the air is, like most atoll islands, a thin strip of land circling a turquoise lagoon: fragile and exquisitely beautiful.
    Jaluit Atoll 003.jpg
  • Pohnpei, Micronesia, fringed by coral reefs and set amidst the Pacific's dark blue waters.
    Pohnpei- Micronesia
  • Jaluit Atoll from the air, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Jaluit Atoll from the air is, like most atoll islands, a thin strip of land circling a turquoise lagoon: fragile and exquisitely beautiful.
    Jaluit Atoll 001.jpg
  • Snow falls on the dark tiles the distinctive vermilion bridge of Matsumoto Castle, Nagano, Japan.
    Matsumoto-Castle-winter.jpg
  • Koinobori - carp-shaped windsocks - flying against a blue sky for children's day in May.
    Koinobori-childrens-day.jpg
  • Snow covers the cherry trees and falls into the dark waters of the castle moat, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    Castle-Moat-and-Cherry-Trees-Winter-...jpg
  • During a winter snowfall, the Fukashi Shrine looks like a traditional Japanese woodblock print. Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    Fukashi-Shrine-winter-snow.jpg
  • Nawate Street Snowfall, Metoba River, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    Metoba-River-and-Nawate-Street-Winte...jpg
  • Nanzen-in Temple approach, Nanzen-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan.
    Nanzenin-temple-garden.jpg
  • Matsumoto Castle under a winter snowfall, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    Matsumoto-Castle-winter-tree.jpg
  • The edge of the Azusa River with bare winter trees and the mountain rising up into cloud beyond, Kamikochi, Nagano, Japan.
    Azusa-River-winter.jpg
  • Autumn. Fallen leaves on wet rock, caught by the flowing stream. The waterfall rushes, pools, spills down the mountainside. The Japanese mountain landscape is bewitching. <br />
<br />
(title translation H. Mack Horton)
    autumn-waterfall-landscape.jpg
  • Birch trees, leaves golden in the autumn, catch the morning light on the steep slopes of the Hotaka Mountains, Kamikochi, Nagnao, Japan.
    autumn-birch-trees-Japan-Alps.jpg
  • Mount Yake across Taisho-ike, nearly monochrome under light snow in winter, Kamikochi, Nagano, Japan.
    Kamikochi-Taisho-Ike-landscape.jpg
  • Evening falls over the rugged peak of Togakushi Mountain from Kagami-ike Lake in winter, Nagano, Japan.<br />
<br />
(title translation Daniel Crump Buchanan)
    Kagami-ike-Togakushi-Mountain-winter.jpg
  • Autumn brings an intricate brocade of colours to the lower slopes of the Hotaka Mountains in October.
    autumn-forest-Karasawa.jpg
  • Sunlight streaming through clouds at the edge of the Japan Alps
    Japan-mountain-landscape.jpg
  • Afternoon light, as the sun dips below the lower peaks of the Okuhotaka Mountains above Karasawa, Kamikochi, Japan.
    Okuhotaka-Mountain-Light.jpg
  • At the edge of the Matsumoto Plain, the mountains fold and crease upwards into the sky, forming a series of ridges which cumulate in the heights of the Japan Alps.
    Japan-mountain-light.jpg
  • The green coniferous forest on the lower slopes of the Japan Alps, back-lit by late afternoon light, near Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    afternoon-mountain-forest-landscape.jpg
  • The green coniferous forest on the lower slopes of the Japan Alps, back-lit by late afternoon light, near Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    mountain-forest-scenery.jpg
  • Clouds reflecting on still water at the edge of Little Cove on a stormy morning, Georgian Bay, Ontario
    Little-Cove-stormy-sunrise.tiff
  • Mists rising from the surface of the mirror-still Balsam Lake in the blue light just before dawn, Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario.
    Balsam-lake-dawn-reflection.tiff
  • Blue night on the Beaver River, with stars reflecting in the water.
    Beaver-River-blue-night-stars.jpg
  • The bronze head of the Great Buddha at Kamakura, Japan.
    Kamakura-Daibutsu-Great-Buddha.jpg
  • The traditional gassho-zukuri thatched roofs of the village of Shirakawago are dotted amidst rice paddies in mountainous Gifu.
    SMALL-Rural-Japan-Shirakawago-Villag...jpg
  • Bamboo Grove, Kawasaki, Japan
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  • Sacred stone marking the presence of a river god, Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
    Japan-Landscape-River-god-shrine.jpg
  • this road--<br />
with no one on it,<br />
autumn dusk<br />
-Matsuo Basho<br />
<br />
Tsumago -- a traditional post station on the Nakasendo Road -- deserted in the early autumn evening.<br />
(title translation David Landis Barnhill)
    nakasendo-road-tsumago-juku.jpg
  • Rice stooks in a harvested field, backed by the golden green of the uncut rice, Toyoda, Suwa, Nagano, Japan.
    rice-harvest-fields.jpg
  • The view from the balcony at the Gora Kadan ryokan during the rainy season, Gora, Hakone.
    Japan-Hakone-rainy-season-view.jpg
  • A carved dragon's head spouts steaming hot springs water at the chozuya or hand-washing trough at Akimiya, Suwa Taisha, Shimosuwa, Nagano, Japan. September 4 2008
    Suwa-Taisha-Akimiya-dragon-fountain.jpg
  • A line of Buddshist Jizo statues, in red hats, at a Buddhist temple at Narai, Kiso Valley, Nagano, Japan. June 8 2008
    Buddhist-Jizo-statues.jpg
  • The sukiya design of the Kikugetsu-tei tea house at Ritsurin Park looks out onto the landscaped garden.
    Kikugetsutei-tea-house.jpg
  • Shimenawa ropes and Shinto papers mark a holy tree on Mount Takao.
    Mount-Takao-Shinto-tree.jpg
  • Matsumoto Castle, lit up at night, reflects in the still waters of its moat, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    Matsumoto-Castle-Red-Bridge-Night.jpg
  • Mount Yake (Yake-dake) under snow in early spring in Japan.
    Mount-Yakedake-winter-landscape.jpg
  • Detail of a lantern and the architecture of Koto-in Temple, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto.
    SMALL-Kotoin-Temple-detail-Kyoto.jpg
  • Japanese momiji maple shades the entrance to Tenjuan temple, Kyoto.
    SMALL-Kyoto-Nanzen-ji-Tenju-an-entra...jpg
  • The Taiheikaku bridge in the traditional Japanese strolling gardens at Kyoto's Heian Shrine.
    Kyoto-Heian-Shrine-Taiheikaku.jpg
  • Myriad paths with scarcely a traveler<br />
Yesterday's wanderings seem like a dream<br />
-Ryokan<br />
<br />
A trained pine bends over the stepping stones that make up the famous Garyukyo Bridge at Kyoto's Heian Shrine, Japan.<br />
<br />
(title translation Ryuichi Abe & Peter Haskel)
    Garyukyo-bridge-pine.jpg
  • A Japanese man in traditional kimono meditates on the mossy garden at Koto-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto.
    SMALL-iconic-Japan-travelJapan_09_Ky...jpg
  • The Heian Shrine in Kyoto is built as a replica of the Heian Period Imperial Palace which once stood in Kyoto.
    Heian-Shrine-Kyoto.jpg
  • Koinobori - carp-shaped windsocks - flying against a blue sky for children's day in May.
    Koinobori-childrens-day-no-border-sm...jpg
  • A peat bog in its natural state near Galway.
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  • Lough Derg just after sunset on an autumn day, County Tipperary, Ireland.
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  • The fragile line of the coral reef that forms an atoll snakes into the distant blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.
    Pacific-Atoll-Reef
  • The islands of Pohnpei, Micronesia, are fringed by coral reefs and set amidst the Pacific's dark blue waters.
    Pohnpei-Micronesia-Wide
  • Jaluit Atoll from the air is, like most atoll islands, a thin strip of land circling a turquoise lagoon: fragile and exquisitely beautiful.
    Jaluit Atoll 004.jpg
  • In the avenue of ancient cryptomeria trees leads to the Inner Shrine at Togakushi, sacred paper garlands hang at the opening of a hollow tree, Nagano, Japan.<br />
<br />
(title translation Ryuichi Abe & Peter Haskel)
    Togakushi-Shrine-avenue.jpg
  • The vermilion bridge that crosses Matsumoto Castle Moat on a snowy winter day.
    vermilion-bridge-winter-moat.jpg
  • A snow-coated tree grows on the stone wall that rises up from the Matsumoto Castle moat, Nagano, Japan.
    winter-tree.jpg
  • Matsumoto Castle and snowflakes, winter, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    Matsumoto-Castle-Snowfall.jpg
  • Green on green. Between mountains, hidden by cloud, mist rises from the from the blue-green waters of Taisho-ike during the rainy season, Kamikochi, Japan.
    Taisho-ike-morning-mist.jpg
  • Winter in Kamikochi, with swirling snow rising up behind the ghost forest at Taisho-ike, Nagano, Japan.
    Taisho-ike-winter.jpg
  • Looking up into a stand of karamatsu (Japanese larch) on a bright autumn morning, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
    autumn-larch-trees.jpg
  • The edge of Matsumoto and the hills behind of a snowy winter's day, Nagano, Japan.
    Matsumoto-winter-snowfall.jpg
  • Winter at Lake Suwa, with warm water from a hidden hot spring bubbling up through the ice, Nagano, Japan.
    frozen-Lake-Suwa-winter-landscape.jpg
  • Ice piles up on ice along the shores of Lake Suwa, Nagano, Japan.
    Lake-Suwa-ice-detail.jpg
  • The afternoon light in winter over the rugged peak of Togakushi Mountain in northern Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
    Togakushi-Mountain-Landscape-detail.jpg
  • Morning light catches a steep ridge of autumn birch trees while a dusting of snow clings to the dark cliff behind in autumn in the Hotaka Mountains, Kamikochi, Japan.
    autumn-ridge-Karasawa.jpg
  • The Myojin-ike Festival at Kamikochi, seen through the dense wild vegetation on the shores of the highland lake.
    Myojin-ike-boat-festival-Kamikochi
  • Blue morning light on the white pines on the shores of Balsam Lake, Killarney Provincial Park.
    blue-morning-white-pines.tiff
  • Oxford's Wolvercote Common blanketed in a white coat of fresh snow on a December morning.
    Wolvercote-Common-winter-snow-landsc...jpg
  • Two rice paddies at different stages of growth, Shikoku, Japan
    green-rice-paddies.jpg
  • Sounenji is a gassho-zukuri temple in the preserved Ainokura village in Gokayama, Japan.
    SMALL-Gokayama-Gasshozukuri-Sounenji...jpg
  • Detail of a traditionally house and bordering moat-style fish pond in the preserved town of Gokayama, Japan.
    SMALL-Gokayama-farmhouse-pond.jpg
  • Japanese women attend a formal tea ceremony at a traditional house in the mountain town of Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, on April 29 2008. Formal kimono are still traditionally worn during tea ceremonies.
    tea-house-ceremony.jpg
  • Carp flags or Koinobori, celebrating kodomo no hi or children's day, fly against a blue spring sky in Nagano, Japan
    Japan-koinobori-carp-streamers.jpg
  • Detail of small red torii gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto
    Fushimi-Inari-Shrine-gates.jpg
  • The painted "twin dragon" roof at Kennin-ji Temple, Kyoto
    Kenninji-Temple-dragon-roof.jpg
  • A neighbourhood Inari shrine holds an offering of ripe rice (in thanks for a successful harvest) to the resident fox gods.
    inari-fox-shrine.jpg
  • Night Cherry Blossom Party, under the flowering sakura trees in Matsumoto.
    night-hanami-cherry-blossom-party.jpg
  • The Azusa River flows across the Kamikochi plains at the base of the Hotaka Range.
    SMALLAzusa-River-winter-landscape-Ka...jpg
  • Clouds cling to the mountains around Kamikochi above the clear mountain stream that slows and deepens across the Kamikochi plain.
    SMALLTaishiro-Ike-Kamikochi-landscap...jpg
  • Early summer in the mountains brings rain and green growth to the high plain around Kamikochi.
    SMALLsummer-green-Kamikochi-landscap...jpg
  • Water flowing at Taisho Pond, or Taisho-ike, Kamikochi, Nagano, Japan. Taisho-ike was formed when neighbouring Mount Yake erupted in 1915; a subsequent eruption in 1962 caused mud-flows to form in Taisho-ike.
    SMALLTaisho-Ike-Kamikochi-water.jpg
  • A birch sapling grows out of an old tree trunk at Taisho-ike, Kamikochi, Nagano, Japan. Taisho-ike was formed when neighbouring Mount Yake erupted in 1915 flooding the forested valley and drowning the trees.
    SMALLregeneration-Taisho-Ike-Kamikoc...jpg
  • A stone path leads to the gate at Koto-in, a sub temple of Daitoku-ji.
    SMALL-Kyoto-Daitoku-ji-Koto-in-entra...jpg
  • Brightly green Japanese maples line the stream that runs alongside the Philosopher's Path in summertime in Kyoto.
    SMALL-Kyoto-summer-Philosophers-path.jpg
  • Detail of the vermilion paintwork at the Heian Shrine, Kyoto.
    Heian-Shrine-Colours.jpg
  • Two beautiful Japanese tourists walk the cobbled streets of Gion in the elaborate kimono of geisha apprentices, or maiko, Kyoto, Japan.
    SMALL-Kyoto-tourist-geisha-portrait.jpg
  • Two beautiful Japanese tourists walk the cobbled streets of the old geisha district of Gion dressed as maiko, or apprentice geisha, Kyoto, Japan.
    SMALL-Kyoto-tourist-geisha.jpg
  • Detail of the pagoda at the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto.
    SMALL-Kyoto-Kiyomizu-Temple-Pagoda.jpg