Friday, December 4, 2009

The Tiniest Frog

With bland serenity
Gazing at the far hills:
A tiny frog.
—Kobayashi Issa (18th c.)

Dragon Knows Dragon


Morita Shiryu, Ryu wa ryu wo shiru (Dragon Knows Dragon), 1969. Four-panel screen, aluminum flake pigment in polyvinyl acetate medium, yellow alkyd varnish, on paper, 162 x 307 cm.