The Greatest Kyoto Imperial Palace of My Life — The Supreme Place and the Music My Soul Reached
I would like all readers—everyone who has followed this column since it first appeared on July 16, 2010—to view this photo collection.
I would like every single person who has read this column even once to watch it.
I am convinced that this photo collection, photographed on November 23, 2025, will bring good fortune and happiness to every person who views it.
After all, it is the Kyoto Imperial Palace.
This collection contains the time, the life, and the soul of a man who, for example, during just ten years at the peak of his business career, rose from nothing to build a nationally unknown small and medium-sized enterprise in Osaka, and yet paid more than 17 billion yen in taxes to the nation of Japan through the work he accomplished.
In truth, as I have always done, I wished to release this freely to the world without charge.
However, as my readers know, ever since June 1, 2011, when I announced a publication from my hospital room, and continuing to this very day, I have been subjected to relentless criminal acts born of what can only be described as the same kind of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” seen in present-day China—persistent search interference, account takeovers, impersonation of my original pen name, port-scanning attacks, and more.
Under these circumstances, I cannot release this collection freely and without protection.
Even so, without a doubt, this is my finest Christmas present to all of my readers.
It truly pains me and saddens me that I must make a present a paid one, but as an apology for that, and with the hope that good fortune will also come to you even in a numerical sense, I set the price at 700 yen.
I have absolutely no need to earn income from this column, but the minimum public price on FANBOX is 500 yen, and the same number cannot be used due to its terms.
Therefore, I chose 700 yen, with the wish that it would serve as a lucky number for you all.
I call myself the world’s greatest amateur photographer when it comes to photographing Kyoto.
In more than twenty years of shooting, this collection is the greatest work of my life.
I even feel that I will never again be able to take photographs surpassing this.
That is why this collection is my “Christmas present” to all of you.
And your decision to watch it will be your “Christmas present” to me.
Please, do watch it.