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The Seaweed

The Seaweed

このわれも 海の藻くずと 消ゆるらむ 記憶の底に 潜みたるは何

Infomation

Category:
Painting
Title:
The Seaweed
Title(original Title):

海の藻くず

Artist:
Hiroko Kato
Owner:
Hiroko Kato
Copyright:
Hiroko Kato
Year:
2000
Area:
Western Pacific
Country:

Area:Western Pacific

Country:Japan

Location:
National Sanatorium Suruga

Notes

I too will fade away as seaweed
Into the depth of the ocean
What should then remain buried in memory?

The painter is thinking, as she looks across the ocean, that all living creatures will ultimately return to mother nature. A question at perfection of life, or at death, is “what will remain at the bottom of one’s memory when that time comes”when she herself will one day be swallowed by the sea, like the seaweed.

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