世界を旅するように、佐賀を旅しよう。
A prefecture on the western edge of Japan, rarely on the itinerary — and yet it keeps quoting the rest of the world back to us.
田んぼに、もうひとつの空がある。 佐賀とラオス。 水を張った田んぼが、 遠く離れた二つの空を映している。
Photo by Basile Morin CC BY-SA 4.0 / Cropped & color adjusted — WORLD
Water becomes a mirror twice on this earth: once above the East China Sea, once beneath the palms of Ubud. Both were carved by hand, one contour at a time, by people who agreed to be patient.
A mountain floating at the edge of the Karatsu coast. Across the sea, Hawaii keeps a landscape that looks alike. Two distant shores, drawing the same line of mountain and water.
Red timber against a wet green mountain. Two faiths, two continents, the same instinct: build the sacred where the hillside refuses you, then climb anyway.
A village of kilns held between mountains in Saga. A province held between waters in the Netherlands. Two distant places, still keeping the same blue and white in their landscape.
Hizen Komainu, standing in a Saga shrine. Salguebrou, carved in a church in Auvergne, France. In two distant lands, people placed stones with slightly frightening faces, to protect places of prayer.
The sea and town, and beside them, a castle. Karatsu and San Sebastián. Two distant bays share a similar landscape.
Photo by @nobuyano ↗ — SAGA
Shiroyama in Imari, and Fai della Paganella, Italy. Sunflowers bloom in the yard, and beyond them lie the mountains. The very similar summer daily lives of two distant towns.
田んぼに、もうひとつの空がある。 佐賀とラオス。 水を張った田んぼが、 遠く離れた二つの空を映している。
Photo by Basile Morin CC BY-SA 4.0 / Cropped & color adjusted — WORLD
YOUR SAGA
Send us a landscape you met in Saga.
We’ll look for a scene that echoes it somewhere in the world.