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"What did a small landscape spread across a hand-held fan mean to hold?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a landscape painted on a fan face by Kano Motonobu of Japan's Kano school. Within a round surface no larger than a palm sit mountain, water, and distant sky. The painter did not shrink the scene because the place was narrow, but compressed a broad world onto the small face. In this skill I see the wisdom of management. A narrow place is no reason to cast aside a great intent. The smaller the space, the clearer one must be about what to leave and what to pare away. One who can cull only the essence onto a limited surface can govern a great canvas too. Smallness is not pettiness but another name for restraint.
🌱Apply It Today
If your given conditions are narrow, first be clear about what to pare away.
