I think that taking “The end of summer” is one of the goal of this project because it is a theme of the scenery of the phenomenon. Scenery of phenomena that disappears fleetingly against enernal landscape. As one of them, “the end of summer” may be the king’s road on the royal road. This time I struggled to take just that.

However, unlike such a miniature scale concern, the macro world is trying to expand the pandemic after a major event, so if you take that into interest, the shooting location can only be set a Ninja village. IOC President Bach also said, “Please show us the patience of the Japanese people”, something like that. (Ninja means someone who gets extreme patience on his/her guts.)

That’s why Ninjas must be in various ways behind the scenes of the macro world, even today, I wonder. Or do they have miniature-scale concerns?

Come to think of it, Basho Matsuo, who is famous for his “Haiku”, which is a short poem about miniature landscapes, was also from Iga. Therefore there is a theory that he was a Ninja as well. If Basho had been a ninja, I guess his life would probably have been much more hard-boiled than it was told.

“Summer grass and soldiers are the traces of dreams”

※ It is an individual’s impression that is not based on evidence.