Sensing Japan  

  “The longing for order is the desire to turn the human world into an inorganic one—where everything is arranged, everything functions, obeying a suprapersonal code. The longing for order is, at the same time, a longing for death, because life is an eternal disruption of order. Or one might say differently: the longing for order is a virtuous pretext through which hatred of people forgives itself its excesses.”

— Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

  A photographic attempt not to understand but to feel the changes taking place in Japanese society as borders reopen and the flow of tourists grows. A view shaped by the tension between the personal and the collective within public spaces—by how ideal order and strict codes of behavior influence the making of the individual.

This is an outsider’s gaze, built not through thoughts or concepts, but exclusively through sensation.

Osaka — Kyoto — Tokyo — Fuji — Yokohama
2025