#380: #087: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.76

“bring me just five stones

and I will restore the world.”

mending the heavens.

Written and published to coincide with the Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything exhibition at the British Museum. 

 

#379: #086: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.75

crossing each bridge they

will battle to victory.

Journey to the West.

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#378: #085: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.74

from across Asia

these men are our brothers and

not all in headgear

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#377: #084: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.73

from across Asia

these men are our brothers in

different headgear

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#376: #083: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.72

protecting our heads,

we were whipped

                            scratched

                                            from all sides.

running from sandstorms.

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#375: #082: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.71

his psychic power

brought peace, even to the beasts.

Maudgalyāyana.

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#374: #081: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.70

circle of old friends,

steadfast companions they are

Buddha’s disciples

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#373: #080: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.69

in a drunken state

he beheaded a great snake

and birthed his legend.

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#372: #079: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.68

in honesty in

quality, Panshan found his

own enlightenment

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#371: #078: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.68

it started with an

overheard conversation -

and then a boar’s head.

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#370: #077: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.68

talking to a man

they found universal good

and enlightenment

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#369: #076: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.67

tall, short and long-armed - 

lands once believed to be real.

does a root exist?

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#368: #075: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.66

the heavenly band

play together to protect

us earthly wonders?

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#367: #074: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.65

holding weight aloft

he composes a new text:

feats of days of yore. 

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#366: #073: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.64

the priest talks to him,

the heavenly child stands -

the proof of the light

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#365: #072: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.63

Upananda prays,

the others follow, sagely.

preparation: key.

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#364: #071: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.62

rhinoceros, rat,

ent’ring the mouths of fish to

feed and have their fill.

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#363: #070: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.62

“back to the sea, now,

to the depths where you belong.”

defeat for merfolk.

Written and published to coincide with the Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything exhibition at the British Museum. 

 

#362: #069: Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.62

what is the story?

left to right (no) or right to left (yes)

what is going on?

Written and published to coincide with the Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything exhibition at the British Museum. 

#361: #068 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.61

seven strings bring joy:

an infinity of it,

passed down through all time.

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#360: #067 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.60

come forth through the gate

you no longer have to wait - 

on to kill Buddha

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#359: #066 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.59

it’s hard to get hepped

up about minerals (again) yet

that shell looks lovely

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#358: #065 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.58

a spring from a staff,

flying! immortality!

what a place to be!

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#357: #064 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.57

we exist around

the tree - its roots, its branches

enrich and keep us

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#356: #063 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.56

the moment that changed

everything - the miracle 

that made the healer

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#355: #062 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.56

start of something big:

yet it started very small,

with a see-through back.

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#354: #061 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.55

the footsteps they carved

I follow most happily.

my trade’s pioneers.

Written and published to coincide with the Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything exhibition at the British Museum. 

#353: #060 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.54

the giant fish rose

and the emperor, he knew.

auspicious event.

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#352: #059 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.53

three kings, three stories,

three pilgrims who heard the words

of enlightenment

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#351: #058 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.52

on a lion’s back

seeking to defeat his fate -

fate cannot be fought.

Written and published to coincide with the Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything exhibition at the British Museum. 

#350: #057 Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) - 2020,3015.51

always discussing,

never sitting idly by.

a new way to forge.

Written and published to coincide with the Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything exhibition at the British Museum.