May 14, 2026.
Nakanoshima Rose Garden in the early morning.
This is a photographic collection of Nakanoshima Rose Garden, shot first thing in the morning on a cloudless, perfectly clear day.
The feeling of the morning light on this day was especially beautiful.
Although it was still early in the morning, it was not completely empty of people.
Even so, compared with my previous shoots at Nakanoshima Rose Garden, the number of people who entered the frame was far smaller.
For that reason, I was able to take many photographs with the compositions I truly wanted, without being overly concerned about people appearing in the frame.
After returning home, it took time to remove the people who had appeared in the photographs.
Even though only a few people appeared, the time required to remove them exceeded the time spent shooting.
In that sense as well, my photographic collections are quite labor-intensive works.
Even so, this became one of my finest photographic collections of Nakanoshima Rose Garden.
Above all, the early morning light was beautiful.
Had I arrived just a little earlier, I might have taken even more perfect photographs.
That is something I may consider on another clear morning from tomorrow onward.
This work consists of 367 photographs.
The photographs are arranged in the order in which they were taken, in ascending order.
The work preserves the natural flow of the morning light gradually spreading through the rose garden.
The music consists of the pieces from the first half of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra’s Matinée Symphony concert, which I heard at The Symphony Hall on May 12, arranged in the original concert order.
It is a visual poem that brings together the afterglow of the Osaka Philharmonic’s magnificent performance and the morning light of Nakanoshima Rose Garden.
The order of the music is as follows.
Suppé: Overture to Light Cavalry.
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia.
Berlioz: “Rákóczi March” from The Damnation of Faust.
Bizet: from L’Arlésienne.
The audio sources were selected from performances publicly available on YouTube.