Vollmond, Kalligrafie | Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月 | 1791-1875 format:24cm x 161cm it doesn't matter – one

it doesn't matter – one likes spring as much as autumn

Daikokuten is facing forward and Fukurokuju is probably dancing with his back to the viewer

the accents with open flowers and the play with the buds and the different colored and multi-shaped leaves correspond perfectly to the syntax of this style

its simple elegance corresponds to the somewhat rustic quality of the paper base of the picture with its inimitable delicacy of writing and painting

it shimmers in shades of blue or green

Vollmond, Kalligrafie | Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月 | 1791-1875 format:24cm x 161cm it doesn't matter – onetagaki Rengetsu is an icon of women's culture in Kyoto. The daughter of a courtesan and a feudal lord, she was adopted by the head of Chion Temple in Kyoto almost as soon as she was born and worked as a young lady in waiting at Kameyama Castle until she was 14. There she received an excellent education, which formed the basis for her entire creative life. She married at 16 and had three children, all of whom died in childhood. At 25, she was widowed