Leaf 4 – Looking Back
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| Utagawa Hiroshige - 'Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode', or 'Asakusa Ricefields & Torinomachi Festival' (1857) |
These are a series of watercolours which I painted as a
present for a very dear friend of mine when she retired from the place where we
worked together for ten years in 2001. She was very fond of cats, as am I. They
were intended to be three lucky black cats. The back of each painting in this ‘haiga’
triptych was inscribed with the accompanying poem. We remained close and kept in
touch, writing letters and occasionally meeting up for lunch over the years
thereafter, but sadly my friend passed away in 2016. She is very much missed.
BLACK CATS
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a patch of
sunlight
– purring.
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a pink tongue –
passing over
milky whiskers.
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jumping a soft
paw
– the cricket
is gone.
