There is a place where Kumagai Shoichi
Original Tachibana Amaranth said yesterday
Japan can always shoot beautiful and heart-warming pictures in very small scenes, delicate and clean, natural and humane.
Recently, I have spent a lot of time in the courtyard, flowers, flowers, plants, insects, birds and birds, so I watched "Where There is Kumagaya Shouichi" again.
94-year-old Kumagai Shouichi and his 76-year-old wife Shuko, known for their "childish painting style", lived in their home in Tokyo's Toshima ward in his later years, and his wife Shuko Kumagai, who spent 30 years exploring their own courtyard and observing the growth of plants and flowers, flowers, birds and insects, and an underground pond, a secret base that took many years to dig out and raise many small fish.
The courtyard is 125.4 square meters, that's their world. "One flower, one world, one leaf, one bodhi". The microscopic world will also be infinitely large, and every second of time has infinite meaning. Watch the ants step on their legs and talk to the stones. Greetings to the creatures in the yard, fish, praying mantises, kittens. Even a bunch of leaves will be asked: Have you always been here?
In addition to wandering in the garden every day, he also has fixed projects, such as painting, such as always burning something, all of which are permeated with some Zen.
There is also a lunch break that does not move at noon every day, laying a straw mat in the garden, sleeping upside down, with the sky as the cover and the ground as the mat.
Picasso said: "I have spent my whole life to draw like a child. "Shoichi Kumagai is painting like a child, and Hideko, who feeds birds and cooks and entertains guests, has lived a life of simple companionship and indifference, innocent and messy.
He lived a clear and clear life, the glitz of the world was isolated by him, and he only cared about the essence of all things. Do not send love to the landscape, do not forget the dark room, nor see the South Mountain.
The meaning of life or sometimes has nothing to do with external things, but in inner peace.
But first of all, can life see the courtyard?