幽玄

Kasekimo

Found on a grave from the 1850s in the Alter Friedhof (old cemetery) in Darmstadt, Germany. The symbol of the snake devouring its own tail represents cyclicality, unity, or infinity, and it can often be found on classical graves. In the romantic period, the butterfly was a sign of the hope of resurrection (larva, pupa, butterfly), it also represented the soul freed from all material.

Okamoto Kiichi Children's songbook cover illustration, "Moon on the Fifteenth Night" 1921

ig - afternoondreams

Kawai Kanjiro - Stoneware Bottle Vase (c.1950s)

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1912

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Edward Hopper, A Woman Sitting on a Bridge in Paris, 1907

Franny Choi, Soft Science