14 July 2021

Otafuku field of flowers


Hyakka Ryōran (百花繚乱) is a Japanese phrase meaning 'Countless flowers blooming in profusion'.

The scroll below, 'Hyakka Fukunozu' (百福之図), we take to be of the same genre. Here, the flowers are countless Otafuku (the goddess of laughter) engaged in their various wisdom activities. (One is washing her hair.)

In the top right corner is a meta-scroll regarded by two Otafuku. It depicts a 'hoju' aka 'the flaming pearl of wisdom'.

collection : FIAPCE   
(above) Otafuku studying the Title   

Theatre of the Actors of Regard   
     detail
     A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
     someone looks at something...
  
     LOGOS/HA HA