Edo Street (Morning)

a street in an original Edo-period Japanese town: packed earth road with a shallow stone gutter on each side, two-storey wooden machiya townhouses with dark lattice fronts, low second floors with mushiko plastered windows, black-tiled roofs and deep eaves lining the left and right, plain indigo noren curtains with no crest and no lettering hanging over the shop entrances, a wooden fire-water barrel stack at the right edge, a wooden kido gate frame closing the far end of the street with tiled roofs beyond, and an empty patch of earth road in the centre about four metres from the camera