Six Themes About Music (piano 

Fujishima Takeji created this painting, titled "Six Themes About Music," which captures a woman playing the piano. She wears a traditional kimono decorated with stylized flower patterns. The flowers decorating the kimono, as a motif, carry connotations of ephemerality, connecting to the transient nature of life and beauty, themes echoed in musical compositions. The motif is rooted in ancient beliefs about nature's cycles, and reappears in different contexts. Remember Botticelli’s “Primavera”, where Flora’s dress bursts forth in a symphony of blossoms, each bloom a fleeting testament to life's ephemeral beauty. This is more than mere decoration, this is a deep-seated emotional response to the world's fleeting nature. Here, they appear not as naturalistic renderings, but as symbols, reflecting a collective memory of nature's power and its impact on our emotional and spiritual lives. This non-linear progression of symbols allows us to understand how they resurface, evolve, and take on new meanings in different historical contexts.