Shiki kachō-zu Byōbu by Mori Kansai 01

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is a Japanese painting in which Mori Kansai drew the flowers and birds of the four seasons in continuous succession on one screen. Beginning with spring blossoms and carrying on to a winter scene, a whole year flows across the surface. In this continuity I see the grain of time. Each season is not a separate, detached thing but passes naturally into the next. Spring must run its course for summer to come, and winter must deepen for spring to come again. To live each single season properly is the way to live a year.