According to the Tibetan Buddhism, the cycle of life can be represented vividly through painting. The painting was the only traditionally imaged representation in the past. There is a Japanese art of kusozu, visualizing the nine stages of human decomposing through watercolor painting. The art was inspired by a Buddhist text, Discourse on the Great Wisdom. In particular, the painting Body of a Courtesan in Nine Stages of Decomposition by Kobayashi Eitaku in the 1870s demonstrates the mixed theme of birth and death. The book displays two out of nine stages: the first and the seventh stage. The first stage begins with the pre-death portrait of the subject and the seven stage illustrates how the body consumed by unseen animals. The process of the