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-- the dedicated student --

"from the age of 7 i felt the impulse to draw the forms of things. approaching 50, i exhibited a collection of drawings; but nothing executed before my seventies satisfies me. only at 73 was i able to intuit, even if only approximately, the true form and nature of birds, fish, and plants. consequently, when i am 80 i will have made great progress; at 90 i shell have penetrated the essence of things; at 100 i shell certainly have ascended to a higher, indescribable state, and if i reach 110, everything, each point and each line, will live.
i invite those who live as long as i do to verify whether or not i keep these promises."

written at the age of 75 by me, formerly hokusai, now called huakivo-royi, the old man mad for drawing.*


*hokusai died at the age of 89

adler-revon, japanesche literatur

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