Hirosaki Castle - Canvas Frame:Black Wood this serene composition captures a

this serene composition captures a pair of red-crowned cranes dancing in a misty marsh as the morning sun gently breaks through the clouds

their umbrellas and measured steps adding scale and rhythm to the landscape

Three white iris blossoms at different stages of bloom

Yoshida captures exactly that quality: not the castle as architecture

Hirosaki Castle - Canvas Frame:Black Wood this serene composition captures aby Yoshida Hiroshi The castle does not announce itself. It emerges slowly through a curtain of weeping cherry branches, pale walls and dark rooflines glimpsed between cascading blossoms: present but partially withheld, as if the season itself has chosen what to reveal. Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture is one of Japan's few remaining original castle structures, and one of the country's most celebrated hanami sites. The weeping cherry trees that