eta wardana

20s | reader | indonesia

[etawardana]

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Written-Verselet: literature reviews, Japanese songs translations

[etawardana]

The flower doesn’t go from bud to blossom in one spritely burst and yet, as a culture, we’re disinterested in the tedium of the blossoming. But that’s where all the real magic unfolds in the making of one’s character and destiny.

— Maria Popova

[etawardana]

But the first step to feeling whole is to know that you are whole.

— J Lou, in Why Everyone Should Learn a Second Language

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from an essay featured in "In Other Worlds," originally published in 2011

[lunamonchtuna]

— Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; "The Fear" (via lunamonchtuna)

[quotefeeling]

“You can never really go back to the same waters. Not only are you no longer the same, but neither are the waters you left. The current has changed. The elements of nature have affected the stream. When you return, although it appears the same, it really is a different river and you are a different person. Therefore, you cannot cross the same river twice.”

— Alice Walker

[dappledwithshadow]

Vincent van Gogh Still Life with French Novels and Glass with a Rose 1887

[sheakspeare]

― f. scott fitzgerald, the beautiful and damned

[nixscriptum]

[vexheart]

[retrobell]

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. IV: 1944-1947

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 23 February 1925, from The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1923–1927

[feral-ballad]

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Burn Lake 4”

[mgcsheaven]

realistically there is no chance i will have time to read, imma still bring a book though

[laclefdescoeurs]

Winter Night in the Mountains, 1914, Harald Sohlberg

[maiji]

Flower of Purple

I dragged my feet on getting to this one, partly because Murasaki is so iconic - not just the character, but as a representation of the author of the Tale of Genji herself. This piece is not quite as glittery as Genji… but still pretty glittery with Amethyste du l’Oural and Night Sky inks.

The lady of the west wing, the lady of spring, and Genji’s main love. The author, Murasaki Shikibu, was given her pseudonym from the character; Shikibu was her father’s court position. Her writing was already immensely popular in her own time, but she appears to have been a fairly introverted person who was at times annoyed by the drunken shenanigans of the court she was part of. The character is heavily associated with purple, and indeed, murasaki means purple - but the plant she is named for is actually white. Its roots are used to make purple dye. This drawing also references a well-known story that Murasaki was inspired to write the Tale of Genji while gazing upon the light of the moon overlooking Lake Biwa, at the Buddhist temple Ishiyamadera.

I don’t typically post an illustration grouping with the solo artwork, but conceptually I think it was pretty key for this piece. You can read the pair as Hikaru Genji and his true love Murasaki no Ue - or as the author Murasaki Shikibu in the process of killing her most famous creation through the blank chapter (Kumogakure/Vanished into the Clouds) that symbolizes Genji’s death.

I’ll post this on my instagram account shortly, with a video of the shimmering ink layers!

Genjimonogatari series

EDIT: Fixed a mistake lol