March 23, 2026.
In Osaka Umeda, I captured that irreplaceable span of time when evening quietly passed and the city was gradually enveloped in the lights of night.
A crescent moon hung in the evening sky, and the evening star shone with noble brilliance.
Hiroshi Hara’s masterpiece emerged in incomparable form amid the deepening blue and the innumerable lights below.
This work is not merely a record of an urban landscape.
It is a monumental visual poem that preserves a fleeting miracle born from the resonance of shifting sky, architectural contours, and the subtle presence of light.
For the music, I chose R. Strauss’s Im Abendrot, in the noble performance of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
In each image, I sought to inscribe the truth of the beauty that Osaka Umeda revealed on that evening.