My window

Author: Tōyō Kiyoshi
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: The sun is setting, and evening is approaching. / In this moment and this scene, I am deeply moved. / Everything, everything, is flowing away. / In the stillness, a voice arose, / I don’t know what it was. / I sat facing the direction of the sound, / Regardless of what it was. / Soon, I could no longer see anything around me. / It was time to close my window. I compiled this collection of poems, illustrations, and essays titled "The World of Tōyō Kiyoshi," and deeply felt that not only in his paintings and art essays but also in his travel writings—whether about Germany, Austria, or the Nordic countries, or his journeys in Japan and China—Tōyō’s cultural sensibility had become an inherent awareness, an awakening. It is precisely this profound understanding and affinity for traditional culture that has taken root in Tōyō Kiyoshi’s heart, becoming the pillar of beauty in his literature and the foundation of beauty in his paintings. It leads readers to a realm of beauty, to the world of Tōyō Kiyoshi’s true, good, and perfect beauty.