Mid-November is shichi-go-san, the day families take young children to the shrine in their best clothes, and it showed. The middle frame is one of those families: two women in heavy floral kimono and a small boy in pale blue, parked in front of the vermilion fence for the photograph he will be shown for the rest of his life. He held still. Just.
The torii gave the morning its shape. A big vermilion one on the wooded approach in the first frame, then the great stone torii in the third, where two women walked up toward it in the low sun, one with a parasol open against light that did not really need shading. The backs of the kimono, the parasol, the carved stone: I liked it better than any posed front would have been.
All on the 55, base ISO where the light allowed, up to 800 in the shade of the fence. Still Yasaka: the great stone torii on the south approach and the vermilion one in the trees, both a few minutes from the main hall.