Koike Chikyoku Kachozu 3

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is a bird-and-flower painting by the Japanese painter Koike Chikyoku, holding a scene where flowers and birds blend together. Within the delicate brushwork, a single moment of small living things is alive. Borrowing the tradition of bird-and-flower painting, I recall the gaze that looks closely at small things. When the heart leans not toward great landscapes but toward a single flower and a single bird, the world reveals itself nearer at hand. There is beauty that appears only when looked at closely. An eye that holds small things dear is itself an eye made rich.