TOKYO-GA, an international project to capture “TOKYO NOW”
through the visionary eyes of 100 photographers, launched in Tokyo in 2011.
There are actually two kinds of calendars used in Japan. Apart from the solar calendar that beings in January and ends in December, the other calendar starts from April and lasts until March of the following year. Schools, government offices and many companies adopt this cycle that starts from the signal of the cherry blossom bloom, and ends in the spring. Because of this, the flowers of the trees often symbolize the ends and the beginnings; parting of friends and moving from a familiar place to the unknown… A beautiful, somehow painful time flows there…
photo by Osamu KURIHARA (Japan)
The Imperial Palace
photo by Mitsugu OHNISHI (Japan)
The National Museum of Western Art
photo by Satoshi ASAKAWA (Japan)
Kunitachi
photo by Haruna KAWANISHI (Japan)
Nakano
photo by Kimiko ISHIYAMA (Japan)
Sumida Park
photo by Cesar ORDONEZ (Spain)
Chidori-ga-fuchi
photo by Osamu KURIHARA (Japan)
Marunouchi
photo by Rie ISHISHITA (Japan)
Sumida River
photo by Takeshi SUMI (Japan)
Shibuya
photo by Haruhi FUJII (Japan)
Inokashira Park