Koike Chikyoku Kachozu 2
"Why have paintings that hold flowers and birds together been loved for so long?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This painting holds flower and bird within one scene, in the tradition of Japanese bird-and-flower painting. Their origins differ, yet the harmony of a flower that blooms and falls and a bird that flies in draws the heart anywhere. I see here the harmony of what stays and what comes and goes. The flower roots in one place and blooms; the bird flies in freely and alights for a while. The two are opposites, and for that very reason the scene lives. People too form one landscape when those who keep a place meet those who wander the road. Different ways of living keep company without colliding.
🌱Apply It Today
Rather than judging wrong someone who lives in a way unlike yours, consider how the two of you might keep company.
