Tokiori
Tokiori, literally means time folds in Japanese. Tokioris are traditional celebrations punctuating seasons. Seasons are quite present in the Japanese culture. In the classic forms of haikus, these very short poems, seasonal words "kigo", must be mentioned.
The photos presented here are the fruit of several trips to Japan, at different seasons. These journeys to find about the cyclic time so specific to Asian culture, more particularly the Buddhist one, came to contradict my Western and linear notion of time.
There, everything is an eternal cycle. For me, everything was also a constant astonishing jubilation as Japan, though modern is not Western.
Consequently, after my fifth visit, I started the difficult learning process of this language.
I will go back to discover again, a few poetic moments in the most hidden folds.
Time flies,
As we are reminded every season
Adding a fold to our life.