“The sound of bells echoes through the monastery at Gion Shoja, telling all who hear it that nothing is permanent.” The Tale of the Heike

The one who lives in land and water. The one who lives in sky and water. They are mixed in water which is common. They are rising higher and higher.

To live means, meeting and leaving. 
The scream from the soul echoes further and further.

Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

There are many characters in the long picture scroll “cho-ju jinbutsu giga” which is 44m total. The motif for this artwork monkey, rabbit and frog,  actually only the 3 run in the opposite direction for some reasons.