spring - Noemi Noemi

2 avril 2016

Follow the Pink River

I just love Tokyo West. In Suginami-ku, along the canals, cherry trees are secretly blossoming. Follow the pink river! Eternal Sushine of the Spotless Sakura

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Tags: japanese, colors, tokyo, spring, beauty, sakura, poetry, nature, pink, urban life, suginamiku

16 mai 2015

Art of Green - Nezu Museum Garden

There is nothing like Japanese gardens to make you worship the beauty of nature. "You know, it is a beautiful Japanese dream" said Vincent van Gogh to his brother, talking about his project of painting purple irises. At Nezu Museum, irises are blooming,...

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Tags: japanese, colors, garden, tokyo, holidays, Omotesando, light, spring, beauty, green, nature, weekend, Nezu Museum, iris

9 mai 2015

Tokyo spring - Light & Shadow

So the sakura are gone, weather is unstable, we are expecting the rainy season to start in a few weeks and a pityless summer heat to follow... But let's cheer up, because Tokyo at spring can be so beautiful. As a flower maniac, I go where it blossoms....

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Tags: colors, garden, tokyo, holidays, spring, green, park, golden week, flowers, perfection, peony, ueno, sunshine

6 mai 2015

What does the fox says ? - Nezu Jinja

Welcome to Nezu jinja, a peaceful shrine located in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo - peaceful except when azaleas are blossoming ! Like Nezu, many shrines in Japan are dedicated to Inari, a deity of harvest and prosperity. In most of them, you will find stone foxes...

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Tags: japan, tokyo, holidays, spring, beauty, weekend, flowers, shrine, nezu, azaleas, greens, tsutsuji

1 mai 2015

Sakura & The City

It's not very difficult to capture the poetry of sakura when you shoot it in gardens and parks; but it doesn't express how magical the city can turn at the blossoming season. Sakura in the nature is glorious, but sakura in the city is more than that....

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Tags: japanese, season, tokyo, spring, beauty, street, sakura, pink, white, blossom, april

5 avril 2015

50 shades of sakura

By day, the yearly Japanese cherry blossom phenomenon makes Tokyo look pure as snow. The white flowers are the city's wedding dress. But at dawn, you can enjoy the pink, orange, blue and gold shades of the mighty sakura. Ready for the most voluptuous...

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Tags: japan, colors, tokyo, night, light, spring, beauty, cherry blossoms, sakura, Meguro, megurogawa, pink, urban life

6 mars 2015

Spring is back

Every year, before the sakura decadence, elegant plum tree flowers blossom at every street corner in various shades of pink. You even don't need to go to the park, for the plum trees are everywhere in private gardens and small local yards. Let me introduce...

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Tags: japan, tokyo, spring, street, sky, pink, weekend, sun, flowers, suginamiku

24 mai 2014

Too green, to bad - Mifuneyama

Ok, this time I screwed up. I missed the azaleas in Mifuneyama (Saga, Kyushu). It was supposed to be covered with flowers (sight). Well, of course it's still beautiful, but... anyway. It's not like I had crossed the whole country in the middle of the...

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Tags: japanese, spring, green, south, nature, golden week, kyushu, trip, flowers, breath, mifuneyama, region

25 avril 2014

Nezu Jinja azaleas

How could I have spent 5 spring seasons in Tokyo without paying a visit to Nezu Shrine (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) when the tsutsuji (Japanese azaleas) are blossoming? It's just like... like... A herd of pink and white sheeps. Strawberry-vanilla bushes. A matress...

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Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, spring, beauty, nature, flowers, shrine, ohanami, bunkyo, nezu, parc

19 avril 2014

Last sakura of the season...

All things must end: this is the yearly lesson of the sakura. Life is as short as beautiful. How can something be so full of life and full of death in the same time?... I will never get used to the sakura "swan song". Every time it moves in my heart....

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Tags: japanese, colors, tokyo, life, spring, beauty, sakura, nature, hamarikyu