Chris Nakahara

Memories of an Island

Rows of seats inside a bus, the green forested mountains of Yakushima seen through the large windows.
The Yakushima airport terminal under low cloud, wet tarmac in front of it, seen past the edge of a window.
A pink house half hidden among palms and dark forest at the end of a quiet road.
Gnarled cedar roots spreading across the dark floor of the forest.
A small stream running between moss-covered boulders in the green light of the forest.
A winding road seen through the dark frame of a bus windshield, forest on both sides.
A concrete shelter framing the sea and a headland under heavy clouds.
Seats inside a bus with the coast and distant mountains in the windows, an emergency-exit sign at the right.
The crowded shelves of a small island drugstore, toothbrushes, medicine and old posters.
A bus pulling up in front of an orange sunset, its rear light glowing red, power lines overhead.
The aisle of a bus at dusk, red stop buttons glowing along the windows.
Dark clouds and a last strip of sunset over the sea, seen from a bus window above a curving coastal road.
Silhouetted palm trees and a small house under a deep blue evening sky.
A single car with its headlights on coming along a coastal road under a blue dusk sky.
A conical mountain across the water, seen through the curtained windows of a bus.