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@sarah-jk.bsky.social

It's @bignosebug.bsky.social !🎨💙

Modeled in Metasequoia 4
Animated in MikuMikuDance

[ #Art | #3DModeling | #Metasequoia | #Metaseq | #MMD ]

February 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM

The Kimono Gallery

@roger1952.bsky.social

Through the golden road, Shiga, Japan. Photography by Takk B on 500px

Bathed in the warm, low-slanting light of late autumn, this mesmerizing photograph captures the famous Metasequoia Avenue (Metasequoia Namiki) in Makino Town, Takashima City, Shiga Prefecture. Over five hundred dawn redwoods line a two-kilometer stretch of road, their soaring crowns arching inward to create a luminous, incandescent canopy of rust-gold needles. Photographer Takk B frames the avenue along a dramatic central axis, following the undulating asphalt as it dips and rises toward a distant vanishing point. Cast across the road surface, the low sun projects a rhythmic pattern of long, dark shadows—creating a bold, striped alternation of light (hikari) and shade (kage) that recalls the delicate geometry of traditional bamboo blinds (sudare).

Botanically and culturally, the avenue represents a celebrated chapter in modern Japanese landscape design. First planted in 1981 as part of a regional agricultural development project, the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) holds profound ecological significance as a "living fossil" (ikita kaseki), believed extinct for millions of years until living stands were rediscovered in central China in the 1940s and re-established throughout Japan. Although a 20th-century creation, the golden avenue honors a ancient design tradition: the creation of monumental tree-lined approaches (namiki) that historically defined sacred shrine approaches (sandō) and major feudal highways like the Nikkō Kaidō. Here, modern municipal planning and arboriculture converge, turning a simple transport corridor into a living architectural sanctuary.

Aesthetically, the composition is a masterclass in seasonal attunement (shun) and the contemplation of kōyō (autumn foliage). The fiery amber hue represents a brief, transitional climax—a fleeting fortnight in late November before the delicate, needle-like leaves fall, blanketing the ground and leaving behind stark winter silhouettes.

September 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM

O.M.🎶🅾️Ⓜ️

@om-depechecobra.bsky.social

外観、ほぼ完成。
#3DCG #Metasequoia

June 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM

David Easterbrook

@davideasterbrook.bsky.social

Bonsai care for the metasequoia forest 🌳
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#metasequoia #forest #bonsai #care #art

October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM

O.M.🎶🅾️Ⓜ️

@om-depechecobra.bsky.social

貫通扉、完成。
#3DCG #Metasequoia

June 18, 2026 at 5:58 AM

Kau)))

@carbon8.bsky.social

A few photos for #FossilFriday —first, here is a beautiful pair of #Eocene Metasequoia (Dawn Redwood) fossil leaves from Canada's Driftwood Formation. #Paleobotany #FossilLeaves

A fossil of Metasequoia (Dawn Redwood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia) leaves from the Driftwood Formation, Canada, dating to the Eocene epoch (56–33.9 million years ago)

May 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Jessica Graae

@jessicagraae.bsky.social

Metasequoia

#metasequoia #photography #trees #sequoia #redwoods #swarthmorecollege #delcopa #pennsylvania

A photo of a walkway lined with metasequoia trees.

April 12, 2026 at 1:19 AM

David Easterbrook

@davideasterbrook.bsky.social

Metasequoia bonsai forest after a trim 🌿✂️
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Assembled and cultivated by me. #bonsai #forest #metasequoia #horticulture

July 20, 2026 at 10:17 PM

David Easterbrook

@davideasterbrook.bsky.social

Very Old Metasequoia bonsai forest 🌿🪾
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#Metasequoia #Bonsai #Forest #tree #life

December 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM

O.M.🎶🅾️Ⓜ️

@om-depechecobra.bsky.social

ロングシート部分、完成。
#Metasequoia #3DCG #阪急

March 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM

O.M.🎶🅾️Ⓜ️

@om-depechecobra.bsky.social

阪急電車、製造中。
#Metasequoia

February 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM

Sarah Griffiths

@communitea.bsky.social

Metasequoia morning at Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen #BlueSkyArtShow #silhouette 📷 🌲

Looking up at the towering silhouettes of 3 tall, straight Metasequoia glyptostroboides. It is winter and their branches are bare, the morning sky is shades of peach and grey

April 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM

O.M.🎶🅾️Ⓜ️

@om-depechecobra.bsky.social

ふぅ、今日はここまで。
おやすみなさい💤
#Metasequoia

March 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM

Citybirder

@citybirder.bsky.social

Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) #trees #nature #naturephotography #treephotography #redwood

November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Kizuどん

@kizu-kagoshima.bsky.social

10/2 Thu.　#KizuJapan 🇯🇵
📸 栃木県芳賀郡茂木町
　真岡鐵道 SLもおか ( 茂木〜天矢場 )

A steam locomotive
running through a metasequoia forest
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Motegi Town　　　 Tochigi Prefecture

October 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM

Bangtan Greenhouse⁷

@btsgreenhouse.bsky.social

Time for a wintry “I miss Namjoon” photo. He’s on Damyang’s Metasequoia Road, which is lined with the Metasequoia tree.

These are related to Sequoia but they’re deciduous and lose their leaves every autumn. Beautiful in every season!

Namjoon in a khaki jacket walking in the middle of a path with two long rows of very tall leafless Metasequoia on either side of him.

Metasequoia Road in the autumn, two silhouetted people walk down a road with a row trees with green leaves on their left and a row order trees with orange leaves on their right.

January 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM

Koichitrsm

@koichitrsm.bsky.social

Metasequoia
#tokyo #photography #iPhone #ReLens

July 4, 2024 at 4:57 AM

Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕

@restingdinoface.bsky.social

The rediscovery of Metasequoia was like finding a living Triceratops. The world has seen so much change since the Late Cretaceous, but the dawn redwood’s still here.

Museum of Natural and Cultural History @uomnch.bsky.social · Feb 14

It's #FossilFriday & Oregon's birthday! Did you know our state fossil is also a living tree? The genus was thought to be extinct until Chinese botanists found a living Metasequoia in 1943. The green leaf is from a descendant of that rediscovered tree, planted on the University of Oregon campus.