The main subjects are the early-summer flowers of Nagai Botanical Garden.
Japanese irises.
Water lilies.
Hydrangeas.
At the end, I added the urban landscape of the Umeda North Yard, together with a few photographs from dinner in the North Yard area.
For the music, I chose Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 as a preparation for the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra subscription concert to be held at Festival Hall on June 20.
The performance is by Evgeny Kissin, piano, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
The video length is 27 minutes and 38 seconds.
This concerto contains sharp intelligence, driving rhythm, transparent light, and sudden moments of lyricism.
The flowers at Nagai Botanical Garden are not merely seasonal records.
The dignified form of the Japanese irises.
The stillness of the water lilies floating on the surface.
The rich colors of the hydrangeas.
All of them seem to resonate beautifully with the hard brilliance and hidden poetry of Prokofiev’s music.
The photographs of the Umeda North Yard form the closing section of the work.
They move the sequence from nature to the city, from the time of flowers to the time of modern Osaka.
The dinner photographs form a quiet ending to this day’s photographic journey.
The early-summer flowers of Nagai Botanical Garden, the urban landscape of the North Yard, and my own time in Osaka naturally come together there.
Location: Nagai Botanical Garden and Umeda North Yard, Osaka
Date photographed: June 13, 2025
Music: Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Piano: Evgeny Kissin
Performance: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Video length: 27 minutes 38 seconds