The Seventh Farewell: Hokusai at the Ukiyo-e Museum, Osaka

This is an allegory,
truth buried in the language of drama.

A story of the world
and us.

Fuji San, immovable,
in the windy distance

while we struggle,
holding on to what we have
mistaking it for who we are.

Let go,
Hokusai is telling us,
let go.

Sometimes
the world is not as heavy
as it feels.


[11:36 am, 24th May 2023,
Shinsaibashi, Osaka.]

*Written upon viewing an original print of Katsushika Hokusai's "Ejiri in Suruga Province", from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.