Street Facing Koutokuji (高徳寺) Temple, Nakano Tokyo

Orange bits are signage and details, not lights. It was not as gray as it looks, but the gray shows the cast of light; there is a lot of light.
Buildings are blobs, and paint is the substance. Details are made as pattern and layers. Two thin lines of the lamp post in the distance to the left and the thin white line that puts some building in front of another building.
The characteristic Tokyo staircases on the outside of buildings are a clay-like repeated pattern of blue-black swatches and grey mass.
On the opposite end of the street, close to me, there is an entry gate to a small residence. The decorative lattice is scraped into a mess of white paint.
The broad shapes on the left closest to me were formed by some parked cars but in effect, it’s an area of low light where dark characters stand aside the well-lit street.
Covering the front of the temple face, with its characterizing shape of roof, is a conical plant, a pillar of architecture where it lives, and a long curving pole that gets darker as it gets taller where the light is brighter.
The purplishness of the middle gray suggests some relationship between the warmth of yellow and orange scattered around.
Though the building is directly ahead, it’s the shape of it rather than the destination that creates the image. There is a busy street between me and the temple, and the off-street I’m in is the space depicted, the temple as a capstone.