This year, I visited Tōfuku-ji Temple twice—
on November 20 and again on December 2.

The first visit captured the season as it approached its peak.
The second, on December 2, marked what can only be described as
the final moment of autumn at Tōfuku-ji.

By then, the brilliance of the leaves had passed.
Some had already fallen, others remained,
holding their color quietly as the season came to an end.

This photographic work does not seek splendor.
It records completion as an ending—
the moment when beauty remains, even as it begins to leave.

For this piece, I chose
J.S. Bach’s Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin.

This music does not accompany the images as decoration.
It sustains the passage of time itself—
holding beginning and ending, emergence and disappearance,
within a single, unbroken structure.

The final autumn leaves of Tōfuku-ji are preserved here
as a quiet record of time, beauty, and departure.