Leaf 282 – Garden Poems
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Maruyama Ōkyo - Pine Trees in Snow, left folding screen (1786) Mitsui Memorial Museum
Similar to Leaf 281, this poem was
written during my second trip to Japan back in 2003. I wrote it during a visit
to Rikugien, one of Tokyo’s remaining Daimyō Gardens (see Leaf 108). The
way pine trees are so carefully sculpted here in Japan, to my mind at least, means
they sometimes seem to resemble hands or umbrellas even, which sometimes can be
quite “handy” …
Feeling the cold –
I stand under a handy pine bough
and warm my head.
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Kawase Hasui - Pine Trees in Clear Weather after Snow (1929)
