[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools hanging scroll (kakejiku)] One line: willow, green, flowers, red, or clouds, flowing water, or pine, ancient and modern colors, by Fukumoto Tsuneo

● Willows are green and flowers are red (Yamagi wa midori wa nakurenai)… The willows have green branches and red flowers are in full bloom. At first, all you can see is the difference in the various phenomena.
After completing the training, one can see things as they really are, but it is a completely different world than what one saw at the beginning.
●Kouunryusui (flowing clouds and flowing water)... A metaphor for acting without getting too attached to things and just going with the natural course of events. It is also a metaphor for not having a fixed form, but instead changing naturally and smoothly. ▽ "Kouun" means clouds passing through the sky. "Ryusui" means flowing water. It is also sometimes used as an analogy for Zen monks who travel around the country practicing.
● Matsu ni, kokono iro nashi (Pine has no color, past or present)…A couplet that translates to "Pine has no color, past or present, bamboo has upper and lower knots." No matter how many years pass, a pine remains green and its color never changes.

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Author: Fukumoto Tsuneo
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Daitokuji School Shoshunji Temple
Born in Kyoto in 1930
Ordained by the monk So'o at Yotoku-in, a subtemple of Daitoku-ji Temple
He became a disciple of the former head priest of the Daitokuji sect, Seiryoken Kankei Roshi, and trained at the Mino Kokei Sodo.
1959: Appointed as the chief priest of Shoshunji Temple
In 1975, he was appointed as the head priest of Horinji Temple and a member of the Buddhist monastery.
He handed over the head priest of Horin-ji Temple to the next head priest and is currently the head priest of Shoshun-ji Temple.
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Box: Wooden box