2012年2月12日

The Second Coming



Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

『装飾する魂―日本の文様芸術』 鶴岡真弓

ケルト装飾についての著作のある方による、日本の装飾についての読み物。
日本の装飾をいくつかのテーマごとに分類し、解説していく。
何気なく見ていた文様が意味と歴史を持つことに気付かせてくれる本。
エッセイのような感覚で読みやすい。

装飾する魂―日本の文様芸術
装飾する魂―日本の文様芸術