Contemporary Japan Viewed Through a Prism of the Past

Perhaps a stone bridge too far...

This is a wonderful juxtaposition, Jack.  The composition is perfect--everything seems in its place, and yet it's unsettling, too.  

Thanks for the comment. This picture didn't get much play but for me it kind of sums up the dilemma the Japanese face today. The best yearn to break free from ingrained patterns and develop freedom of individual thought. Yet at the same time they find themselves shackled to long-established traditions and an exceedingly small menu from which to choose a direction for their life. Like America, Japan seems a society adrift without any charts or clear sense of where it wants to go, and so spins round and round in an eddy of its own history and culture. And also like America, it views the world through a very small and parochial window

And I wish them best future!

 

Cheers

 

PDE

A sort of Mên-an-Tol (situated in Cornwall England) here very probably with a different meaning. Like all human made things constant under repair and change. For ever restless.

I saw an old weapon sighting taking dead aim on that which is modern.

:--)

Your thoughts shared Jack really made this composition 'hit home'. The Countries are kind of like a Toilet Bowl flushing.....round and round the water swirls....but just doesn't complete the 'flush'.