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This Good Day
Also titled Deze goede dag
Nakagawa Sōen (1907–1984)
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 23 cm x width 35.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift F. Hess, 2018)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
The anatomy of this bicycle is not quite right, but that is not the point. The painting captures the essence of a bicycle. The accompanying inscription reads ‘this good day’. It is taken from a Zen proverb, which invites us to live in the moment and make the most of each day.
