Shiki kachō-zu Byōbu by Mori Kansai 02
"If all four seasons are held in one screen, how does time appear?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is part of a four-seasons bird-and-flower screen painted by Mori Kansai of Japan. Open the screen, and the flowers and birds of spring, summer, autumn, and winter run in one line, so that a year's time enters the eye at a glance. The seasons, visible only as they flow past, are halted and spread out in one place. In this spreading I see another eye for seeing time. Living day by day, the change of seasons feels slow and stifling. But step back and spread out the whole, and those slow changes gather to form a complete year. Even a stifling season, spread out, is one leaf of a great current.
🌱Apply It Today
Spread a season that feels slow before you as one season of the whole year, and behold it so.
