THE BOOK OF TEA
Okakura Tenshin once said that "Japanese aesthetic sense was perfected" during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. He considered that the various changes in values ??brought to Japan by the engineers and monks who came to Japan when the Southern Song Dynasty fell in the 13th century completed "Japanese aesthetic sense."

However, this recognition suggests that various changes in values ??in society will also change "aesthetic sense."

Indeed, the innovations that have occurred over the past 20 years have changed social norms from "a structure in which norms are internalized through the transmission of stories and training in discipline" (disciplinary training type power) as described by Foucault in "The Birth of the Prison" (1975) to "a structure in which people obey the system through unconscious prompting in a controlled environment" (environmental management type power).

Perhaps social norms were once the foundation of various values ??in society. Because of this, as time goes on, we may no longer be able to see the "Japanese aesthetic sense" of the past in the same way we see other cultures...
This painting was created to portray this premonition.