"Oh, he's dead!"...the flash feature on the powershot camera sends out a beam of light when one half presses the shutter, and it had revealed in its light that the Mackerel in the Fish Bowl, which had been alive for the too dark pic (pic up) on the way to Pier's End, was now very much belly up--the common fate of Fish Bowl Fish, I'd say!..."He didn't make it." the fisherman said with sardonic humor, and I answered, dead serious as it were..."none of us do..."...and moved off feeling gloomy, and thinking I settled some unwelcomed gloom on the fisherman, and his brood with fishbowls instead of buckets!...Pier much crowded, Saturday night, and the one cool place to go for inlanders!...and not much cooler than inland, just a lightlight breeze--warmest evening I think of the whole Summer...Ruby's too crowded for a snack, and sat hungry awhile thereabout watching the sunset...Sun Rays were trying to form...a rare sight to see sun rays at sunrise or sunset ...once I saw a rayed sunrise, and it looked like the Japanese Rising Sun Flag, and the thought came, 'oh, that's where they got their flag...'...and as it happened, while watching the sunset, I was thinking on the reading I did yesterday night...I did a search of that Japanese term for questing knights, Musha shugyō, and happened on a very cool sumi-e brush painting...
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Musha shugyō, or "training in warriorship", was inspired by Zen monks, who would engage in similar ascetic wanderings (which they called angya, "travelling on foot") before attaining enlightenment.[1] Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami Nobutsuna, who founded the Shinkage-ryū school of swordsmanship in the mid-sixteenth century, was a shugyōsha
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I searched and found:
Miyamoto Musashi
who painted this ink wash of Japanese Shrike:
and he did this self portrait:
The swords in his hands aren't fanciful, like the ones my wow toons wield! Musashi was like the samurai's samurai, and this back in the 17th century. Old masters in the West could do ink wash too, but usually just as a step before doing an oil painting. Apparently, samurai would do ink wash, and many things seemingly unrelated to swords, to hone their skills. And there is something of Zen and Buddhism in what they were about that I cant follow.
And I think I was feeling gloomy on my Pier walk because Musashi does the ink wash so well. I cant do a painting like that. I like ink wash, one can fail so completely making an ink wash, that it becomes a challenge. How did my art teacher put it seeing my efforts?...'why do you keep using those unforgiving media?'
anyway, I paddled back to the Balboa Bakery and got a turkey sandwich, and snacked in the Plaza, and stopped at Target before reaching home to stock up!
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In early Japanese history, the Hinomaru motif was used on flags of daimyos and samurai. The ancient history Shoku Nihongi says that Emperor Mommu used a flag representing the sun in his court in 701, and this is the first recorded use of a sun-motif flag in Japan. The oldest existing flag is preserved in Unpō-ji temple, Kōshū, Yamanashi, which is older than the 16th century, and an ancient legend says that the flag was given to the temple by Emperor Go-Reizei in the 11th century.[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Japan
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oh...read about St. Frances last night too...today was St. Frances day...
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The St. Francis of Assisi statue on the altar at Mission San Miguel was perfectly illuminated by the rising sun Saturday, marking the annual phenomenon on the saint's feast day.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2014/10/04/3279646/st-francis-statue-at-san-miguel.html
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