Nara morning, 2006, 8 AM
Ryokan Matsumae

subject:

Other People's Art


found at breakfast
on the tatami mat floor
laid out just as you see it

toys on a sheet of red paper


I admit a sigh
when my friends pick this out
as their favorite photograph
since, of course,
it isn't my work

but that of the ryokan's owner
both an artist
and a talented wood carver










see: Ryokan Matsumae