Philip Brook Dransfield, 30 December, 1925 – 4 July, 2004

“In the cicada’s cry

No sign can foretell

The Summer’s end”

Basho, 1644 - 1694

In 1946, my father visited the Great Kamakua Buddha and took one picture with a Box Brownie camera. In the year of his centenary on September 12 th , I revisited the Kamakura Temple at Hase and took some of the pictures featured below in and around Kamakura using analogue cameras, including a mid-format camera similar to the Kodak Brownie my father used.

The final resting place for the Great Kamakura Buddha picture taken by Philip is in Chigasaki- kan, along side a portrait of Yasujiro Ozu (12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) who lived at the inn for several years duriing the 1950s and is buried at Engaku-ji Temple, Kita-Kamakura. My deepest gratitude to fourth generation owner of Chigasaki-kan, Hiroaki Mori and his mother for the great kindness extended to me.

List of Photographs

1) Pattrick Dransfield with Philip’s picture in front of the Great Kamakura Buddha using a Seagull camera

2) That picture close up

3) At Chigasaki-kan, with Yasujiro Ozu

4) Patrick at Chigasaki-kan

5) Philip Dransfield (far left) with his bride-to-be Pauline Mary Drake

6) Tokuji shrine picture 3

7) Tokuji shriine picture 2

8) The Great Buddha at Kamakura

9) Tokuji- 3

10) Pauline and Philip Dransfield, Yangshuo, Guangxi province, 1996