January 2012, Kanazawa.
Posts Tagged ‘Kazuemachi’
Kazuemachi in the Snow
Posted in Kanazawa, Photography, tagged chayagai, 茶屋町, Kanazawa, Kazuemachi, photography, snow, winter, 冬景色, 主計町 on 2014/01/10| Leave a Comment »
Sakura Conversion
Posted in Culture, Kanazawa, Photography, tagged cherry blossoms, Kanazawa, Kazuemachi, Kenrokuen, photography, plum blossoms, sakura, tea district on 2012/04/23| 6 Comments »
I admire plum blossoms more than sakura on principle. Plum blossoms bloom in the last throes of winter, often surviving Ishikawa’s final snow storm. They smell sweeter and are more tenacious. There’s nothing sakura can do in form or shape that a plum can’t: they can be subtly tinged with pink or violently fuchsia; they can hang from delicate weeping boughs or bloom among thick, gnarled branches. But perhaps because of their staying power, taking several weeks to blossom fully, then remaining for another week or so before fading, they don’t induce the same joie de vivre that their more famous cousin, the cherry blossom, does.