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Time Passing Homage to Basho Photo Essay By Jun Nishimaki
The award winner photographer, Jun Nishimaki's latest work pays homage to the poetic journal of Matsuo Basho (1644-94) titled the Narrow Road to the Deep North. Four centuries after Basho's pilgrimage through out Northern Japan the photographer followed the same trails looking for the remaining sights and tried to picture to himself what the poet may have experienced throughout his journey. The Narrow Road…begins with a passage that represents Basho's philosophy: “Time is a sojourner of one hundred generations, and the passing year is a traveller too. Time passes, and things change there is nothing external expect time itself.” In this work, Nishimaki sought to produce images devoid of any artifice, as natural as when seen through the naked eye while capturing the flow of time in a photographic manner. Nishimaki said: “I wanted to avoid the fast shutter of modern cameras, the speed in which they deal with time shooting photos in fractions of seconds; instead I wanted to trap the flow of time in each frame.” For this reason he lingered on each shot for up to five minutes. In Basho's journal, the eternity of time is contrasted to the fast changes of civilizations and people. In Japan, since earlier centuries, time's eternity had been compared to the endless flow of a river. With these series of photographs, Nishimaki gives the viewer his distinctive perspective on the perpetual themes of love, death and passing of time. SENDAI – MATSUSHIMA Station 18 - Sendai It looks as if
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