Kyoto Journal founder and editor John Einarsen has produced a lovely book of photos taken of bikes in Kyoto.
Each photo in In the Realm of the Bicycle is a haiku, a brief fleeting moment that contains a larger truth.
The book has text in English and Japanese and a series of photos taken over the years.
Einarsen :
"Each encounter I had with a member of this vast race revealed an individual with a personality all its own, the result of a history at once common and mysterious. Inevitably, I came to see them as they really were: creatures who populated the niches and nooks and corners and alleys of neighborhoods and streets and lives.
And so I began with my camera to record their story, as my movements around town took me through their world. These photographs show them exactly as I found them; as indeed they remain even now, in their places everywhere, waiting only to serve."
For bike lovers or haters, those in Kyoto or not, this is a fine work that can be perused over and over again.
Preview and ordering information can be found here.
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