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“..his last message to Maria, written at Christmas time, 1944, he said: “What is happiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on that which happens inside a person.” Four months later he was hanged…
https://time.com/archive/6647934/protestants-bonhoeffers-love-letters/
Kesōbumi (懸想文 'love letters') are special 'attraction' amulets that were particularly popular with young women in the Edo period.
By placing the amulet in your clothes draw it is said that you will always have something good to wear, and will always look good in what you wear.
THE LOVE LETTER SALE
At Suga-jinja (須賀神社 - twinned with Kōtsū-jinja) a rather different sort of event takes place at Setsubun (and the day before).
There are no oni, but there are 'Kesōbumi-uri' (懸想文売), 'vendors of love letters', with their faces carefully hidden.
The Letter
Paintings by husband and wife artists Charlotte Sorapure and Saled Dai
Sorapure says of her 2017 Oil on linen painting:
“The sleeping man is my husband the artist Saied Dai and yes, there is a tiny self-portrait in the reflection on the desk lamp – a silent witness. The painting on the wall is also a self-portrait, and the feeling I wanted was that of my watching over him. The whole painting is a kind of love letter …”
Do we think Dai’s ‘The Letter’ is also a portrait of his wife? The 3rd painting, also by Dai, is ‘Portrait of the Artist’s Wife’ (oil)
