Shiki kachō-zu Byōbu by Mori Kansai 03

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is a bird-and-flower folding screen in which the Japanese painter Mori Kansai held the flowers and birds of the four seasons. From spring to winter, the living things of the seasons continue across one surface. In this flow I see the naturalness of change. No season stops and stays; each yields its place to the next. That the blooming and the fading repeat without end is the order of nature. If, rather than grieving the passing, one knows it to be a yielding of place for what comes next, then change becomes not a fear but one scene in a turning round.