DAY 218
Kachozu Kano Eigaku work — 狩野永岳 Kano Eigaku
Kachozu Kano Eigaku work 狩野永岳 Kano Eigaku · 江戸時代後期 Edo period (19c) · Wikimedia Commons Public Domain View source ↗

Kachozu Kano Eigaku work

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🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"Where did the devotion of a painter who held flowers and birds so finely come from?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is a flower-and-bird painting rendered on silk by the Japanese Kano school painter Kano Eigaku. The Kano school honed a style passed down through generations and achieved fine depiction. Though it came from the tradition of Japanese painting, its devotion stirs the heart anywhere. I see, in this delicacy, the fingertips of one who walked a single path long. A depiction that neglected not a single petal or feather does not come without long discipline. Skill ripens through repetition more than through talent. The time of steadily walking the same path accumulated in the fingertips, and only then became such fineness.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Do not envy a single stroke of talent; gather the time of steadily honing one path.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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