Fall Festival

2004, 36" x 28"
Ryoshu Collection

It is time to celebrate. Worries over weather, fear of bugs… now all those are behind.

harvest time--

festive hearts

beat into the drums

The sound of the drum is a declaration of all that went into the season's long, hard labor, and a celebration of its completion.  Across the clear sky, the sound reaches the dazzlingly colorful distant hills, and bounces back to the villagers.

in the fulgent hills

the joyous sound

reverberates