Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

Otagaki Rengetsu and Isso (potter’s seal)
‘My thoughts’ tea bowl [chawan] c.1870 
glazed stoneware, incised calligraphy
4.0 x 12.0 cm
Hamilton Art Gallery. Gift of Geoff Handbury.
Photograph Ian Brilley

My thoughts
I’ll make that frog there
sing them
unspoken colours appear
on the gorge’s yamabuki flowers.

(trans. Sayumi Takahashi)

http://www.bachmanneckenstein.com/misc/NGA_Exhibition_black_robe_white_mist/details/165306.htm



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