Miya Ando in Kyoto Journal 104: Flora & Fauna

Kyoto Journal

 

This special print issue explores the ubiquitous roLe of flora as an essential subtheme in Kyoto’s timeless culture through essays, interviews, and poetry, illuminated by superb photography and artworks.

 

In this special issue of Kyoto Journal featuring artist Miya Ando —to explore how all these aspects reveal an essential and ubiquitous subtheme of Kyoto’s timeless culture. Kyoto’s superb gardens, or on the city’s rich heritage of tea ceremony and flower arrangement, its deeply-rooted culinary traditions based on heirloom vegetables, its longstanding literary appreciation of seasonal blossomings, or its impressive diversity of botanically-inspired decorative arts. 

 

 

Flower Atlas Calendar

 

Miya Ando


“The Flower Atlas Calendar directs our attention to the vernacular of flowers, reminding us of the inevitable transience of each passing moment and the interconnectivity of all things.”

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