Client: Aman Resorts Japan

Published on Cartography Issue 04

Photographs by Luca de Santis

Discovering Aman Tokyo and Amanemu, from the heights of the Otemachi Tower Tokyo to the forested hills of Ise-Shima into a sanctuary of restorative peace. 

In our written language we are principally concerned with meaning and pronunciation. The quintessence of language is poetry, which approaches song, music; western poetry is composed essentially to be recited. But a language written ideographically is concerned with three things: meaning, sound, and appearance. When it ascends to poetry it tends to become rather the sister of painting or of architecture, the latter being understood as the art of spatial relations. Chinese poetry is written essentially to be seen; it penetrates to the mind by way of the eyes.
(Meeting with Japan, Fosco Maraini, Hutchinson)