This man has carefully lined a stone bench in Naha’s Matsuyama Park with cardboard, removed his shoes, and placed a bottle beneath his head. He sleeps soundly. His posture, the precise care he as brought to his comforts, the use of a hard bottle as a pillow, and the formal precision of the picture’s composition are all incongruous. The warm morning light adds an incongruous setting for such sadness. In fact, my initial thought upon seeing this man for the first time was that he had died and his body was laid out for public viewing. In short, this image presents what appears to be homelessness as ceremony – certainly an incongruous premise.