The morning-glory is one of the most common flowering plants in japan. It is quite an art in the cultivtors to make the plant yield to their artistic treatment, and competitive exhibitions take place early in summer everywhere in japan.there are so many changing conditions to be taken into consideration when one hopes for fine large flowers on the vine. But ordinarily it will bloom profusely throughout the summer, over the country fences, walls, hedges, and anywhere.the one peculiarity is that it blooms fresh every morning, and there are never any of yesterday's flower. However splendid the flowers are this morning, they fade even before noon of the same day. This evanescent glory has appealed very much to the japanese immagination.
But the fact is, beauty is something momentary and ever-fleering, and if it is not appreciated while it is fully charged with life, it becomes a memory, and its liveliness is entirely lost. This exemplified morning-glory.
And here is the poem..
Each morn as the sun rises,
The flowers are newly fashioned
Glorious in their first awakening to life;
Who says the creeper is short-lived?
It keeps on blooming so long.
The pine tree lives for a thousand years,
The morning-glory but for the single day;
Yet both have fulfilled their destiny.
Beauty is ever alive, beacause for its there is no oast, no future, but the present. You hesitate, turn your head, and it is no more. The morning-glory must be admired at first awakening as the sun rises, so it is with the lotus.
How to be touch with the life running through all objects including human beings?
There is no fatalism in this, each moment pulsates with life both pine tree and in the morning-glory.the worth of this moment is not measured by the thousand years of the one and the single day of the other, but by the moment itself.for this absolute in each of them. Therefore, beauty is not to be spoiled by the thought of fatalism or of evanescense.
Found the morning-glory blooming around the well, her mind was occupied with its beautyand with the feeling of holiness that she had no desire to disturb the flower for any practical purpose.the sense of beauty and holiness was something that should not be defiled by mundane hands. Hence, her poem may be called a divine inspiration flashes ypon our consciousness at the sight of an object of nature. Which is not necessarily beautiful but may even be takes place we are so raised from our earthly occupations that merely giving vent to the experience may sound curiously factual and prosaic and even sacrilegious. It is only when we are elevated to same height that we can grasp the full meaning of the utterance and see into the secrets tbat are concealed in the poet's feeling for nature.
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