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(Detail)
Autumn Grasses in Moonlight, Shibata Zeshin,
Meiji Period, 2-panel folding screen,
ink, lacquer, and silver leaf on paper
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The Moon |
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Autumn Grasses |
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There are
some rooms at the Metropolitan Museum where one can stop these
days for a few long moments, sit in meditative stillness as if in
a Japanese garden . . . .The moon stopped like a tear down curve
of sky, sigh of autumn grasses, a crying deer, all symbols that
were evocative of the season, the transience of life, of love.
The soul howling at the moon. And saying how beautiful it
all is, how beautiful and how sad. . . . |
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