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Shorai
I received a cedar board from an acquaintance.
As I was looking at it, the word “Shorai” came to mind.
When I was young, shorai meant “future,” something that was far away, a future filled with hope that would come after an unknown time. It was a word that foreshadowed something glorious.
However, recently, the shorai that comes to my mind is an image of something solemn coming from the other side, raining down, something that is brought about. Written in kanji, it would be “future,” but the katakana shorai seems more appropriate.
Time is cruel. It gives and takes away at the same time. The sadness of growing older.
I looked up the “sho” in shorai in the dictionary and found that it “originally meant placing meat on a table as an offering to the gods.”
(Exhibited at the 2013 Southern Alps Miniature Print Exhibition)