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A charming vintage Japanese shikishi (色紙) print featuring the calligraphic phrase 「日々新」 (Hibi Arata) together with a small straw ox (藁牛 / wara-ushi) suspended from a bamboo branch.
“Become new every day.”
The phrase expresses the idea of continuous renewal, self-improvement, and approaching each day with a fresh spirit. Rather than remaining fixed in the past, it encourages us to keep learning, changing, and beginning again.
It is a simple but powerful expression that fits naturally with Zen-influenced and classical East Asian ideas of mindfulness and daily cultivation.
The small 藁牛 (wara-ushi) is a traditional folk-style ox made from straw. Straw animals have long appeared in Japanese regional customs, seasonal decorations, shrine traditions, and rural folk crafts. The ox itself is associated with patience, diligence, strength, and steady perseverance.
The contrast between bold calligraphy, delicate bamboo leaves, and the tiny folk-style ox gives this shikishi a particularly attractive balance between Zen-like simplicity and Japanese folk tradition.
