Patricia K.

Hauru no ugoku shiro

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Howl’s Moving Castle

h: go away.             s: no. i’m not going away. i’m going to help you break this spell that you’re under. h: you? you can’t even break your own spell.             s: but you don’t understand. I LOVE YOU.

For the Japanese issue of “Holiday” magazine, 

Ph. Eliot Elisofon

by John Launois for National Geographic

Springtime in Japan, Eliot Elisofon, 1957

Osaka Maiko Chiyoha 1911. Teruha debuted in the Shinbashi geisha district of Tokyo in 1911, but prior to that she was a maiko (apprentice geisha) by the name of Chiyoha in the Sōemon-chō geisha district of Osaka. She debuted in Osaka in 1909, after several months training as a minarai (watching apprentice), having been sold into the flower and willow world aged 12 years. To increase her commercial value, Chiyoha was dressed in the Kyoto style with a Kyōfu hairstyle and a darari obi.  Text and image via Blue Ruin 1 on Flickr

Picking Warabi 1905.  A geigi (geisha) picking warabi (bracken), a wild mountain vegetable similar to asparagus, used in making warabi mochi (bracken rice cakes) or roasted as a side dish or in salads. Sansai (mountain vegetables) are are in season during late spring, at higher altitudes.  Text and image via Blue Ruin 1 on Flickr

Tea pluckers in Ella, Sri Lanka

JAPAN. Tea fields. 1998.  Photography Chris Steele-Perkins/Magnum Photos

Happy new year :)

TO:KY:OO

And then one day, my love, your eternity comes to an end.