In a town of white walls, a morning market sets up. Kurashiki in Okayama prospered in the Edo period as a tenryo, a territory under direct shogunal control, and is known for its historical quarter, where white-walled storehouses line a canal. In one corner of it, on the first Sunday of every month, a morning market is held. Local produce, handmade bread and sweets, old tools, simple goods are laid out. As a tourist destination Kurashiki is already polished, but this morning market carries the scent of daily life, a market not for visitors but for local people. Against the backdrop of the storehouse town, you choose vegetables while willows sway over the canal water. A tenryo was land held directly by the shogunate; as a hub of distribution, wealth gathered here, and the memory of it remains in the streetscape. The everyday face of a historic town.