Takeo Hanazawa’s Hand-Me-Down Haikus

“Days and months are the travellers of eternity,” Edo poet Matsuo Basho once famously wrote in a poem-filled travelogue of his country’s landscape (1,200 miles on foot, if we must tell). Today, these romantic words universally represent the concept of a personal journey—especially for Takeo Hanazawa, the Japanese artist who titled his recent painting with the sentiment.