A ramble through meadows and fields in early autumn - crisp green pumpkin flesh, fresh Kadota fig, amaranth, cut orchardgrass, and oat hay.
If fields of autumn flowers
can shed their blossoms, shameless,
why can’t I also frolic here —
as fearless, wild and blameless?
—Ono no Komachi
(loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch)
Art: The Harvest Moon by Samuel Palmer, ca. 1833
If fields of autumn flowers
can shed their blossoms, shameless,
why can’t I also frolic here —
as fearless, wild and blameless?
—Ono no Komachi
(loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch)
Art: The Harvest Moon by Samuel Palmer, ca. 1833