Now we’re inside the cafe, look closely — huh, waterfall in the distance, and yet photographs of the waterfall on the ledge, seasonal (fall, spring, unlabeled), late afternoon light striking Formica table, menu, ashtray (end of an era of indoor smoking), Eames-esque chairs plucked from the 70s, yuzu juice for sale, literal focal-point of the image that gaggle of wires, the emblem of contemporary Japan — aboveground electricity, ultility poles, transformers — and far in the distance, just a bit fuzzy, up above the ancient falls, the trace of a shimenawa crossing the gap.

Now we’re inside the cafe, look closely — huh, waterfall in the distance, and yet photographs of the waterfall on the ledge, seasonal (fall, spring, unlabeled), late afternoon light striking Formica table, menu, ashtray (end of an era of indoor smoking), Eames-esque chairs plucked from the 70s, yuzu juice for sale, literal focal-point of the image that gaggle of wires, the emblem of contemporary Japan — aboveground electricity, ultility poles, transformers — and far in the distance, just a bit fuzzy, up above the ancient falls, the trace of a shimenawa crossing the gap.



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