MingeiABC

study of Soetsu Yanagi

『心偈』48

「色ソメツ 心ソメツ」

         柳宗悦『心偈』

 As you dye color, the heart is dyed it.

 

The world of dyed textile is the world of color.

In fact it is the world of hearts more than that.

Though we dye textile, we dye our hearts more than that.

The tone of color is changed by hearts in various ways.

Between honest man and unfaithful man, the color is separated right and left.

Between way to work beside yourself and way to work for personal benefits, the color is different in terms of depth, shallowness, warmth and coolness.

 A color is enduring from washing is because of man's skill who dye the textile.

So we dye textile, we dye our hearts more over.

Thinking about this, if you do what kind of work, everyone repent yourself.

Man don't lie a color.

This poetry was originally started from "Kokoro semetu iro sometu" for dyed textile of zenzo oikawa.