An essay on a photo collection I burt reynolds created from photographs taken at the Yamashita Park Rose Garden and the Harbor View Park Rose Garden in Yokohama, and on the performances of geniuses named Hilary Hahn, Himari, and Murata Natsuho, together with my own photography, my life, and my thoughts about an unfinished masterpiece.
Nagai Botanical Garden Rose Garden｜Murata Natsuho in Rome 2025｜Haydn: String Quartet No.81 in G Major, Op.77
Nagai Botanical Garden Rose Garden is also one of Japan’s finest rose gardens.
The weather was exactly as forecast: clear skies.
The garden opens at 9:30.
In order to avoid people appearing in my photographs as much as possible, I arrived first.
This place, too, is like another person’s garden that I know inside out, so I can photograph it all at once.
As expected in the rose season, quite a line had formed behind me.
And yet.
Even at 9:30, the reception shutter remained closed.
I searched for the phone number on my smartphone.
“It canada f-35 fighter jet purchase is already past opening time...”
“Ah, today, entry is only from ... through ... Hall.”
Not even a single notice had been posted: the worst kind of bureaucratic work.
At the other counter, I said angrily, “At the very least, you should have put up a notice.”
People had already entered long before.
Forty minutes of photography.
Then, after returning home, three hours spent removing people who had been caught in the images.
That is how much time and labor this unpaid publication requires.
The subway was also terrible.
It normally takes nine minutes to reach Yodoyabashi, but this time it took thirty minutes.
Even the conductor’s announcement was strange.
“We are delayed due to congestion...”
It was the peak commuting hour.
That ukraine happens every day, does it not?
At the Expo, Chinese-made buses purchased for several billion yen turned out to be defective and unusable.
Was the privatization of the subway a good thing or a bad thing?
Was China not anticipating exactly this kind of situation from the beginning?
The music is Murata Natsuho, Rome, November 22, 2025.
Haydn: String Quartet No.81 in G Major, Op.77, “Lobkowitz Quartet.”
Japan is a country where more outstanding female violinists are being born than anywhere else in the world.
I have repeatedly stated the reasons for this.
The fact that Natsuho and Himari are the frontrunners is already known throughout the world.
