DAY 240
EB1911 Japan - Plum Trees and Stream
매화와 시냇물
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What does the flower that blooms in the coldest time teach?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a work attributed to the Japanese painter Korin (Ogata Korin), in which a plum tree standing by a stream blends with the flowing water. The decorative grace of Japanese Rinpa painting shines, yet the meaning the plum holds is the same in any land. In this painting I see the fragrance of one who endured the cold. The plum blooms first in the cold season when flowers are scarce. Because it blooms when all others draw inward, its scent is the more precious. One who endures a hard time has a firmness that those merely awaiting spring do not.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Take the hard time when others have stopped as the time to cultivate a fragrance of your own.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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