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Hanshiro Tsugumo: What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow. Kageyu Saito: The ronin from Hiroshima, Hanshiro Tsugumo, committed hara kiri. All our own men died of illness. The house of Iyi has no retainers who could be felled or wounded by some half-starved ronin. Hanshiro Tsugumo: After all, this thing we call samurai honor is ultimately nothing but a facade. Hanshiro Tsugumo: Swordsmanship untested in battle is like the art of swimming mastered on land. Hanshiro Tsugumo: When my master's house fell we immediately left the domain and moved to Edo. The streets of Edo were crowded with ronin - flotsam from the Battle of Sekigahara. In former times, other clans would have gladly taken in any ronin who'd earned a name for himself. But in an era no longer in need of warriors or horses, so peaceful that no wind even rustled the leaves on the trees, it was a constant struggle simply to find a meal. Indeed, it shames me to recall our miserable lives of these last eight or nine years. Hanshiro Tsugumo: The suspicious mind conjures its own demons. Hanshiro Tsugumo: Who can fathom the depths of another man's heart? Hanshiro Tsugumo: The greatest delicacies taste of nothing when one dines alone. from ‘Hara-Kiri’ (1962) Starring Tatsuya Nakadai (The Sword of Doom), Akira Ishihama (Black Snow), Tetsurô Tanba (Three Outlaw Samurai), Masao Mishima (The Human Condition I: No Greater Love), Ichirô Nakatani (Yojimbo), Yoshio Inaba (Kurosawa’s Macbeth), Kei Satô (Kwaidan), and Shima Iwashita (Samurai from Nowhere). Written by Yasuhiko Takiguchi and Shinobu Hashimoto (Ikiru). Directed by Masaki Kobayashi (Samurai Rebellion). Harakiri (切腹, Seppuku, 1962) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki drama film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The story takes place between 1619 and 1630 during the Edo period and the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. It tells the story of the rōnin Hanshirō Tsugumo, who requests to commit seppuku (harakiri) within the manor of a local feudal lord, using the opportunity to explain the events that drove him to ask for death before an audience of samurai. The film continues to receive critical acclaim, often considered one of the best samurai pictures ever made. Source: Wikipedia Artist’s Note: So, I figured I’d put a note with this painting. Mainly, because I have a Toshiro Mifune (in a samurai costume) tattoo taking up a bunch of my right forearm, and the fact he isn’t even in my favorite samurai movie. This (Hara-Kiri), is by far my favorite samurai film. It’s not directed by Kurosawa, and Mifune isn’t in it. In fact, my favorite Kurosawa film isn’t even a samurai movie (High and Low). And my favorite Mifune movie isn’t directed by Kurosawa (Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto). Anyhoo, I frickin’ love this film. From Tatsuya Nakadai’s performance, it’s commentary on bushidō, to the editing, writing, "etcetera, etcetera, etcetera". And The Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray transfer (per usual) is awesome. Also, no, they’re not paying me to say that. Although, I am open to that idea Mr. and/or Mrs./Ms. Criterion.
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I’m (I am?) a self-taught artist, originally from the north suburbs of Chicago (also known as John Hughes' America). Born in 1984, I started painting in 2017 and began to take it somewhat seriously in 2019. I currently reside in rural Montana and live a secluded life with my three dogs - Pebbles (a.k.a. Jaws, Brandy, Fang), Bam Bam (a.k.a. Scrat, Dinki-Di, Trash Panda, Dug), and Mystique (a.k.a. Lady), and five cats - Burglekutt (a.k.a. Ghostmouse Makah), Vohnkar! (a.k.a. Storm Shadow, Grogu), Falkor (a.k.a. Moro, The Mummy's Kryptonite, Wendigo, BFC), Nibbler (a.k.a. Cobblepot), and Meegosh (a.k.a. Lenny). Part of the preface to the 'Complete Works of Emily Dickinson helps sum me up as a person and an artist: "The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called ‘the Poetry of the Portfolio,’ something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways. On the other hand, it may often gain something through the habit of freedom and unconventional utterance of daring thoughts. In the case of the present author, there was no choice in the matter; she must write thus, or not at all. A recluse by temperament and habit, literally spending years without settling her foot beyond the doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly limited to her father's grounds, she habitually concealed her mind, like her person, from all but a few friends; and it was with great difficulty that she was persuaded to print during her lifetime, three or four poems. Yet she wrote verses in great abundance; and though brought curiosity indifferent to all conventional rules, had yet a rigorous literary standard of her own, and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own tenacious fastidiousness." -Thomas Wentworth Higginson "Not bad... you say this is your first lesson?" "Yes, but my father was an *art collector*, so…"
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