Category: Urban Essays

It soon became March!

We were grateful to get tickets to the Mokujiki exhibition at the Fukuoka City Museum in Momochi, and we went to see it when we thought the timing might be good.
Actually, I am not particularly interested in Buddhist images, but I like to see tender looking figures, because I can feel I become tender, too.
Mokujiki went all over Japan after the age of fifty and he made many Buddhist images at many places until he passed away at ninety-three. His path took him very prefecture in Japan!
He went around the country when there was no transportation, more than two hundred years ago. Impressive!
Generally, at that time, people over fifty looked much older than people over fifty do now, but he was very active. Impressive!
The exhibition encouraged us, who had recently seen many incomprehensible contemporary artworks that disappointed us. It was an impressive exhibition.
The exhibition it will soon close in Fukuoka, so I’ll copy some of Mokujiki’s words here!
Be warm, everybody!

Marumaruto
marumemarumeyo
wakakokoro
manmarumaruku
marukumannmaru
– Mokujiki

(Which is something like this.)

To be round and round,
make round my spirit,
perfectly round,
round perfectly.
– Mokujiki

– YS, 1 March 2008

1 March 2008