• Blood and Rose, Tokyo, 1969 - Shomei Tomatsu“Dreams, memories, the sacred&
• Blood and Rose, Tokyo, 1969 - Shomei Tomatsu“Dreams, memories, the sacred–they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.” - Yukio Mishima -- source link
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