La mosca e lo Zen

La mosca e lo Zen

A samurai ( Portrait of Otani Onji III of Sharaku , actor of kabuki theater.
Printing on wood matrix , 1794 , Tokyo National Museum ) try to resurrect a fly in a day of Autumn .
The atmosphere is surreal , poised between dream and reality : the center of the composition there is a Shodo ( Japanese writing ) meaning , dream.
The red brushstroke that " splits " in two the picture , however , symbolizes the energy of the gesture , action , act acted in full consciousness , as well as the tradition of Zen philosophy .

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