Birds and Flowers (Ten-Panel Screen)

📝ONGO's Reflection

An unknown painter filled a ten-panel screen with birds and flowers. Birds flying in pairs and flowers in full bloom carried an old wish for harmony between husband and wife and blessings upon the household. To paint it not on one panel but repeated across ten was the heart of one who, with a good wish, would not say it once but turn it over and over. I see in this screen that blessing does not arrive from afar, but is cultivated in the harmonious company of those beside us. Birds that fly in pairs travel the farthest.