Sunday, April 26, 2009

Wisteria Flowers in Japan:

 In Nara Park, at Kasuga Taisha

Currently, there are stunning wisteria flowers hanging over the San Tomas Expressway near my house.
There's something very wabi-sabi about seeing beauty in an otherwise 'ugly' place.

In honor of those heroic highway flowers, here's an image of wisteria in Japan. I took this photo at Kasuga Taisha, a quiet shrine nestled against the hills of Nara.
I chosen to accompany it with one of my favorite haiko by Matsuo Basho.

exhausted, i sought  
a country inn, but found 
wisteria in bloom


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