Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 95 - Saki no Daisojo Jien

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Full-width, broad, 16:9 format of an extremely detailed, delicate, intricate, richly colored impasto oil painting all the way to the edge of the canvas, of poem number 95, Saki no Daisojo Jien, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "From the monastery / On Mount Hiei I look out / On this world of tears, / And though I am unworthy, / I shield it with my black sleeves." The painting shows a Japanese Buddhist monk in the traditional dark-black robe with large sleeves He is looking out of the window of the stark cell of his monastery on Mount Hiei, onto a breathtaking landscape on a cool late winter morning. The chilly morning is symbolic of the suffering in the world, and the ink-black robe is symbolic of the Buddhist monk's vow of compassion with all beings who are suffering. Rich colors surround the central blackness of the robe. Stark image heightened with the deftness of the brushstrokes. Highly intricate detail, strongly symbolic in a style that is reminiscent of symbolist painter Odilon Redon. Exquisite Japanese folio.

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Poem No. 95 from the Japanese poetry collection Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (see https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/hyakua.html). According to https://100poets.com/2012/12/08/compassion-poem-number-95/, "... the last line of the poem is noteworthy because it is a direct quote from the founder of Tendai Buddhism in Japan ... So, for many, this has been interpreted as Jien’s vow as a monk to carry on this tradition of compassion for all beings in a world that is transient and marked by suffering."

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