Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
I left home in the evening. The intense heat of the past few days finally seemed to be easing up, so I took advantage of the situation and decided to walk around the house, thinking about various things.
I left home in the evening. The intense heat of the past few days finally seemed to be easing up, so I took advantage of the situation and decided to walk around the house, thinking about various things.
Throughout history, people have often turned to dance to forget the terrors that were looming.
Plan for the Newton Memorial – 1784
This unique sketch, drawn on the eve of the French Revolution, was created by Etienne Louis Bouley, an architect active from the end of the absolute monarchy through the revolutionary period.
Death was once very close to us: illness, disaster, war. Our lives, our civilization, can be said to have been run to keep these things away.
Hon'ami Koetsu, a connoisseur who lived in the same era as Sen no Rikyu and Furuta Oribe.