March 26, 2026.
This is a photo collection filmed from afternoon into night in Osaka’s Umeda district.
The music is Delius: Two Pieces for Small Orchestra.

This time, I chose this work as preparation for the concert I will attend tomorrow.
It is a visual piece meant to accompany the process of turning my mind toward the music I am about to hear live, while contemplating Umeda’s afternoon light, twilight, and nightscape.

There was, on this day in Umeda, a distinctly urban transition of light and an afterglow that resists words.
Delius’s music overlapped with that passage of time quietly and deeply.
Rather than asserting brilliance, it sinks into the city’s atmosphere, drifts through it, and remains at last in the depth of the heart.
That quality resonated beautifully with these photographs.

On the eve of tomorrow’s concert, I wanted to receive at least a part of that sound into myself in advance.
This work is a small prelude to that experience, and at the same time a visual poem inscribed with the passage from afternoon to night in Osaka Umeda.

Thank you for watching.