Journal of a Nobody
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
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Iwao Akiyama - Biography
Iwao Akiyama born 1921The prints by Iwao Akiyama are witty and whimsical. But by non-Japanese the humor is not so easy to understand, especially if Japanese characters are used on the print like on this one. Here the characters are a short poem by Santoka Taneda about a humorous expression of people in Japanese hot spring baths.
Iwao Akiyama works in woodblock technique and prints on a long-fibred, wavy Japanese paper. The edition size of this design is 225 and the print dates from 1978.
あふれる湯 秋山巌 1978年
“ちんぽこも おそそも湧いて あふれる湯 山頭火”
(Source: printedorotherthings, via the-broom-cupboard)
