View of Nature in Japan

Miscellaneous

Wild ducks gliding across a pond, leaving sunlight arrowheads on the water, introducing visual experiments of Japanese nature’s art.

A collection of visual experiments showcases the artistic depths of Japanese nature.

This section contains 18 BGSS slideshows, 2 comprehensive BGSS books, an interactive "Virtual Bird Watching" hidden-object game, and monthly downloadable wallpapers (on the subpage). Please select the content below and the slideshow.

Experimental Approaches

Sparkling on the Water

Metropolitan Cityscapes

With Japanese Words

Others

✦ Notes

• BGSS: BackGround SlideShow

• UD: Photo flipped Upside Down (indicated by a small "UD" mark in the bottom right corner of the slideshow)

• For the individual slideshows of "Transparency-Translucency-Inframince", please refer to "Another Space in the Water" and "Natural Stained Glass".

• For details on the musical tracks, please refer to "BGM List".

Experimental Approaches

Start an aerial view slideshow with Grieg’s Holberg Suite, 1. Praeludium.

In the Sky (2:59)

Start a slow-shutter slideshow of Cape Inubosaki’s seashore with a traditional English ballad, Scarborough Fair.

Another Time (3:37)

Start a slideshow of spring, summer, and autumn flowers with Bach’s 6 Partitas, No.6, 1. Toccata, 4. Air, and 7. Gigue.

Flower Garden (3 BGSSs, 18:11)

Start a compilation of 2 music slideshows for the water reflections and sunlit leaves.

Transparency-Translucency-Inframince (2 BGSSs, 1:14:51)

Sparkling on the Water

Start a poetic sunlight-reflection slideshow with Ravel’s Jeux d’eau.

Beads on the Water – MR – (6:59)

Start a calm sunlight-reflection slideshow with Schuman’s Träumerei.

Beads on the Water – Dreaming RS – (3:15)

Start a lyrical sunlight-reflection slideshow with Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, 1. Ondine.

Beads on the Water – Fairy MR – (9:33)

Start a melancholic sunlight-reflection slideshow with an excerpt from Mozart’s Fantasia in D minor.

Beads on the Water – Fantasy WAM – (4:43)

Start an odd sunlight-reflection slideshow with Satie’s Nocturnes, Nos. 1 and 2.

Beads on the Water – Dreaming ES – (6:51)

Start a peaceful sunlight-reflection slideshow with Debussy’s Rêverie.

Beads on the Water – Dreaming CD – (5:13)

Start a slideshow of dynamically changing sunlight-reflection with Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor.

Beads on the Water – Fantasy JSB – (17:44)

Start a capricious sunlight-reflection slideshow with Liszt’s Feux follets.

Beads on the Water – Fairy FL – (4:33)

Metropolitan Cityscapes

Start a Tokyo's cityscape slideshow with Liszt’s Sonetto 104 del Petrarca.

Metropolitan à la Carte – A Nest of Human Beings – (7:20)

Start a slideshow of Tokyo's cityscapes and astronomical events with an excerpt from Holst’s The Planets, IV. Jupiter.

Metropolitan à la Carte – A Nest of Human Beings on the Third Planet – (2:31)

Start a Tokyo's waterscape slideshow with Debussy’s Reflets dans l’eau.

Metropolitan à la Carte – A Nest of Human Beings on the Water Planet – (5:41)

Start a slideshow of upside-down water-reflected buildings with Debussy’s Elégie.

Water-buffered City (3:00)

With Japanese Words

Start a monthly-calendar slideshow with Satie’s Gnossiennes, No. 5.

1/2倍速のカレンダー

Half-speed Calendar

(4:29)

Start a slideshow of passersby with Satie’s Sarabandes.

シャッター・レリーズ – 7つのスケッチ –

Shutter Release – 7 Sketches –

(24:32)

Start a short-story slide and a music slideshow with Taki’s Hana (Blossoms).

思い出の桜

Cherry Blossom Tree in Mind

(3:51)

Start a slideshow of the sunset years with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Mov. 4.

カーテンコール、一葉の写真

A Curtain Call, One Photo

(15:10)

Others

An interactive hidden-object game like bird watching as PDF.

Virtual Bird Watching

Monthly Wallpapers

Water Reflections and Witnessing Astronomical Events

The sunlight reflections, sparkling across the rippling water, create countless particle-like images of the Sun. Each image is somewhat distorted and imperfect, forming a sea of miniature suns. Meanwhile, the shimmering reflections on the waves shape fractured images of the Sun.

The upside-down water-reflection photographs (i.e. "UD") capture an optical reality: an upward view from a virtual perspective beneath the water, mirroring the observer's height above the water's surface (see ”Another Space in the Water"). Philosophically, these water reflections result in the sublation (i.e. Aufheben) of reality and unreality, of fact and fantasy, and of the solid and the fluid.

When viewed from space, a metropolis can be regarded as a massive nest built by human beings on the Earth, suggesting that the cityscape itself is an extension of nature. The water reflection of tall buildings offers a sublation of the artificial and the organic, and of unyielding lines and fluid curves. These subdued cityscapes within the water reflections remind us that even a metropolis full of monolith-like buildings can provide a comforting and harmonious space for its inhabitants.

Furthermore, witnessing astronomical events (such as solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, the transit of Venus, and comet tails) over Central Tokyo grounds observers in the realization that humans are residents on the Earth in the solar system.

(To be updated)

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