The following is a paper I sent out about 10 years ago.
Last year, the autumn leaves in Kyoto were so beautiful that those involved in the industry described them as being as vivid as they are only once every ten years.
The autumn before last, I desperately wanted to see the autumn leaves in Kyoto more than I had ever wanted to see anything.
However, the stress I was under at the end of my business career, due to the frustration and anger I felt at having encountered the evils that exist in Osaka, was too much for me to bear.
As a result, I faced a severe and life-threatening illness, leading to a hospital stay of over seven months. But it was during this time that I embarked on a personal journey of recovery, finding solace and strength in the beauty of Kyoto’s changing seasons.
Naturally, I could not see the autumn leaves in the fall of the year before last.
I waited impatiently for the autumn leaves to start changing color last autumn.

I told my close friends that my photographs resembled those of Katsushika Hokusai, Ogata Korin, Hasegawa Tohaku, Tawaraya Sotatsu, etc.
Or that they were like those of Higashiyama Kaii, Suda Kunitaro, etc.

Once, NHK broadcast an excellent feature on Zhang Ziyi.
She said, “Beauty is only found in a moment.”
I strongly agreed with her.
I don’t know anything about photographic techniques.
I don’t want to know.
Because I believe that everything, every emotion, every experience, is encapsulated in a single moment. And it is these moments that I strive to capture with my Sony digital SLR camera.
I use a Sony digital SLR camera.
As readers of “The Turntable of Civilization” will know, I love Sony technology.
I have complete faith in Sony’s sensor technology, etc., so I only use the auto mode.
I’m sorry to say this to professional photographers, but I’ve never really thought their photos, with their elaborate professional techniques, were any good.
And yet, I continue to take photographs of Kyoto, which changes with the seasons and from day to day.
I have decided that, as part of my rehabilitation after my illness, I must immerse myself in Kyoto for the next four years, away from the stress of business.
When I was in my first year of high school, trying to decide whether to go to the University of Tokyo or Kyoto University, there was a lecture by Takeo Kuwabara and Toshihiko Tokizane in my hometown of Sendai.
Listening to the lecture, I was convinced that I was the one who would succeed Takeo Kuwabara.
Mr. Sato, who had twice asked me to give a lecture on world history when I was in my second year of high school, had seen through me.
He caught me on the stairs and said to me:
“You must stay at Kyoto University and stand there, carrying Kyoto University on your shoulders.”
I had always thought that God had given me a mission to give up the promised life of a super elite and live this kind of life.
I had to retire earlier than anyone else.
Three months in Florence, three months in Paris, three months in Hawaii… Hawaii was a place I liked because I was a golf fan at the time, but I couldn’t think of a place for the last three months.
I have realized that it was actually in Kyoto.
Now, as I navigate the challenges of life after my business career, Kyoto is fulfilling my deepest wishes. I find myself drawn to the city’s ever-changing beauty, capturing it in my photographs every day.
I took pictures of Kyoto every day.
It is no different from the spirit of Domon Ken, who fell in love with Muroji Temple and continued to take pictures of it.
I have decided to sell around 100 photos for 100 yen each. This price point is not only affordable for most people but also holds a special meaning for me. It symbolizes the value I place on these photographs and my desire to share them with as many people as possible.
When people from all over the world buy them, I would like to go to Rome, where the concept of the “turn table of civilization” was discovered, and then to various cities in Italy.
I would also like to go to Paris to take photos there.
Please buy my photo collection.

As was the case last night, I would have liked to have seen that excellent movie earlier, but
I was forced to live frugally and wasted time because I was a little stressed about being unable to ask a website creator to create it for me.
Life is not 100% for anyone.
There are always various kinds of suffering.
Everyone has experienced the pain of a man and woman fighting or a married couple fighting and feeling pain that they can’t tell anyone about.
Even I, now devoting myself to rehabilitation and leaving my work to our managing director, am not immune to such unexpected stress.
In my case, being tormented by such stress for long periods, unlike when I was healthy, is a fatal blow.
In such times, my photographs have saved me many times.
They’re excellent.
Please buy and look at my photos.
An average of 100 photos would cost 100 yen or 1 dollar.
Please look at them.
You should be able to see everything.
The words of truth will reach the ends of the world.

As I needed to improve with PC technology, I started by making FC2’s blog pay-per-view.
Today, I have divided the remaining 240 photos of Kinkakuji that I have been delivering up until yesterday into 80 photos each and set the price at 100 yen per 3 times.
Please enjoy them.
They will surely reach your soul.
I am sure that these photographs will tug at your heartstrings.