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  ‘Fluttering merrily’ hanging scroll [kakemono] 1840s-50s calligraphy, painting image 28.1 x 30.2 cm; mount 123.5 x 33.0 cmPrivate collection, Zurich  Fluttering merrily andsleeping in the dew in a field of flowers, in whose dream is this butterfly? (trans. Kuniko Brown)

                    

Otagaki Rengetsu  
‘Fluttering merrily’ hanging scroll [kakemono] 1840s-50s calligraphy, painting
image 28.1 x 30.2 cm; mount 123.5 x 33.0 cm
Private collection, Zurich 

Fluttering merrily and
sleeping in the dew
in a field of flowers,
in whose dream
is this butterfly?

(trans. Kuniko Brown)



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