Inspired by a book of panoramic photographs of European cities, Japanese artist Takeshi Takeda decided to fulfill a long-term ambition to photograph his hometown of Kyoto using a Russian Horizont panoramic camera. Beginning in the winter of 2022, when the otherwise bustling Kyoto was still being transformed into a different, more solemn space by the corona pandemic, Takeda photographed for ten days in each of the following seasons, covering Kyoto in winter, spring, summer, and fall. His photo book "Kyoto Panorama" presents a selection of one hundred of his works. “I wondered if ancient ideas such as feng shui can still be applied in our modern, scientifically oriented society. But I think I found a visual answer to this interesting question when I walked around Kyoto for the first time in more than twenty years. The qi of the earth permeates every corner of the city, inspiring the sense of the people, and natre and humankind work together to create and nurture Kyoto in new ways every day.” ― from Takeshi Takeda’s afterword “Kyoto in Panorama”