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tanuki-kimono · 9 months

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Unusual pattern choice for this modern high end obi, inspired by the famous Zo to Kujira-zu byôbu (Elephant and Whale folding screens) painted by mid-Edo animal lover artist Ito Jakuchu.

Those folding screens were rediscovered in 2008. There is apparently no hidden allegory behind the whale/elephant pairing beside the fact that artist once saw an elephant and a whale and (rightly) went "well they're neat".

Those screens were ordered to be displayed during Gion matsuri, and whimsical patterns were often favored for this occasion.

#japan #fashion #kimono #obi #elephant #zo #white elephant #whale #kujira #Zo to Kujira-zu #byobu #folding screen #Ito Jakuchu #Gion matsuri #着物 #帯

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lionofchaeronea · 9 months

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Pines and Birds in the Snow, Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716)

#art #art history #Asian art #Japan #Japanese art #East Asia #East Asian art #Ogata Korin #landscape #landscape painting #animals in art #byobu #folding screen #Rinpa School #Edo period #18th century art #Okada Museum of Art

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bonguri · 2 months

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20240209 Ise+Futami 13 by BONGURI 広い部屋に十二単が飾られていました。あたしは弦楽器には疎いので、隣の演奏して良い琴は演奏できず。 @Hinjitsukan, Ise city, Mie pref.（三重県伊勢市賓日館）

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takashi33 · 2 years

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龍安寺魚眼今日はすこぶる調子悪いやっぱり変則的に作業したからだもうやめよう規則的に戻そうそして無理な時は無理しない体がガタガタだから大事に乗らなければ #kyoto #japan #photo #photograph #art #nikon #d600 #fisheye #ryoanji #ryoanjitemple #summer #august #sho #foldingscreen #byobu #instagramjapan #tokyocameraclub #京都 #日本 #写真 #芸術 #ニコン #魚眼 #魚眼レンズ #龍安寺 #夏 #8月 #書 #屏風 #東京カメラ部 (at 京都府京都市) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch2OMS7PgWs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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welcometojapanese · 17 days

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Edo Avante Garde

A documentary on the history of Edo period Japanese folding screens.

Before discussing the documentary I would like to give a brief introduction to its creator. Linda Hoaglund is a film producer, and translator that graduated from Yale, and was born and raised in a more rural part of Japan, by her parents who went there as missionaries. As such she was in just about every way except genetically Japanese, and had grown up living a very Japanese way of life. Thanks to this she is fluent in Japanese. Her knowledge of both Japanese and Western customs and cultures aided in her efforts to receive help/cooperation from many temples, shrines, and art institutions to create this documentary.

In the 1600’s, at the start of the Edo period Tokugawa Shogun took power leading to a peaceful era post civil war, raising the status of samurai, and closed Japan off from the West. As such,for the next roughly 250 years, during this era while Japan was cut off from the rest of the world, its economy, culture and art began to flourish.

The art primarily discussed here will be byobu. A Japanese folding partition that is painted with ink, and often decorated with gold leaf paper. The byobu are large roughly 6 foot tall privacy screens that often decorated the rooms of Shogun, samurai, and merchants.

The Japanese painting style is very different from that of the West. Rather than using oils, or charcoal to illustrate a page, in Japan they used ink. The Japanese painting style also does not rely on a focal point to illustrate depth, but rather a layering of things in the foreground, and moving those things in the background further up the page.

Near the end of the Edo era there was also a shift in the power dynamic of the country. From the authorities and samurai over to the merchants where the meaning behind the art being displayed changed. No longer were these large paintings meant to be displays of force and power, but were rather to show a merchant's discernment and wealth. So the mood that needed to be illustrated was no longer an oppressive one represented by large animals like peacocks and tigers, but could change depending on the mood the merchant wanted to give in the room it would be displayed. This gave artists a great deal more freedom with their work. (Using the word oppressive may have seemed strange as a way to describe this type of Art, but not only considering the size, and content, but also the way this media is consumed can make it so. Not only are these paintings quite large, but typically when one viewed them they would not be walking by in the gallery, but rather sitting near them, thus giving the sense of being surrounded.) Because of this Japan entered into an era of experimentation you could say with their art. A combination of hyperrealism and abstract allowing the eye to see an ever-changing scenery on the byoubu. The blank page, or empty space filled with gold leaf, would often be used to illustrate the clouds, the ground, or even just the entire background scenery. This is because as the merchants no longer wanted to overwhelm individuals with the art, the freedom the artists were given led them to making smaller pieces on the byobu. That is not to say however that the pieces are worse or not of equal value to those before, many of them may even be more valuable just because of the level of detail, experimentation, and thought put into the composition. As in these types of painting each stroke counts. It's not like with oils where you can go over and hide your mistakes, but if a mistake is made it is one that has to either be worked with in a way so that it's not noticeable, or restarted. Many of these practices are ones that would not come to the Western world of art until much later. It is this almost modern multimedia, freeform, and experimental aspects that led Linda Hoaglund to saying these pieces were Edo Avant Garde.

Japanese art is heavily connected to nature, religion, and spiritualism. In Shintoism it is believed that every living thing has a spirit. This is reflected in the art of Edo Japan with the practice of Shasei, or drawing from life. While of course many artists approach this in different ways, whether they approach the image with hyperrealism or abstract simplicity, in each painting a sort of character or essence for the animals illustrated can be seen. This is almost directly oppositional to the West where our approach to painting animals is typically very anatomical, and is meant to look accurate to the eye, but is also seen as kitsch or embarrassing. Yet in Japan some of the most famous artists of their time like Ito Jakchu, and Maruyama Okyo, are known to have painted not just any animals, but their own pets. In the case of Jakchu, part of what led him to become so well known was the hyper realistic nature of the birds, and specifically his chickens, that he was painting. For Okyo, they were known for painting a variety of different things, many of them from life, but the ones I can't help but remember the most are the ones they did of puppies.

Now with Japanese art, as I stated before, it's not typically necessary for something to be painted as you would see it with the eye. So long as it is representational of the spirit then often that successful completion of a piece. In the documentary another reason stated for this is the fact that humans are perhaps not meant to be the ones whose point of view is represented by the artist, but rather in many cases it is the point of view of the gods. There are a number of illustrations on these byobu that represents a story, but rather than choosing one specific scene from this story it shows the scene in its entirety, oftentimes the point of view of the clouds. Many of these paintings also depict natural phenomena as works of the gods. Rarely in any of these paintings though is the primary focus a person. Portraits, while very popular in the West, in Japan were rarely done. Even in many of the paintings including people the people are just a small part of it, like the rest of the animals and things in this world. That is yet another reason that many say Japanese paintings are meant to represent the view of the gods.

These are the pieces that inspired the greats such as Hokusai, and directly led to the expansion of Japanese art and culture in the West to shape the works of Van Gogh and Jean Claude Monet

Words of interest:

Byoubu- folding partitions often golden or painted

Shasei- painting from nature

Tarashikomi - wet on wet painting technique

Sensu- folding fans with story or art printed

Avant Garde- new experimental ideas in art

Some thoughts on art:

I had a moment to talk to the filmmaker of the doc. Edo Avant Garde which was shown at PSU, and a lot of what we talked about was how when these byobu are commonly used theyre just opened up in a museum behind some glass and everyone’s walking by, the viewer doesn’t even really get to appreciate just how big the piece is, or get close enough to see the detail, and even the height at which your seeing it is not how it was intended to be viewed. This really ended up taking a lot of the impact, and functionality from the art. Originally the 6ft tall folding screens were meant to fill the room (as a backdrop) of a meeting/ gathering of some sort. They are meant to be seen from relatively close-up, most of the time theyre seen would be from a sitting position making them appear even larger, and with natural or candlelight (which makes the gold leaf reflect differently and is super cool) I think the way that we in the west consume art doesn’t necessarily make sense for those cultures for which their art is not just meant to be a painting on canvas but is meant to be functional, or used/ viewed in certain ways.

For more info:

edoavantgarde.com

#hopefully this makes sense I had to splice together some parts of the essay to make things shorter #sorry it took so long I'm a professional procrastinator~#byobu #japanese art history #Japanese art #japanese study #language and culture study #ty to my friend Lily that took this great pic when we wen to japan #this folding screen is at Ruykoku Daigaku's Oomiya Campus in kyoto #idk who took the second pic but its the same byoubu

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douglaswittnebel · 2 years

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Folded painted landscape prototype piece wood base complete full color #art #artwork #artist #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #dougwittnebel #acrylic #acryliconcanvas #acryliclandscape #painting #landscape #landscapepainting #california #californialandscape #pointrichmondgallery #folded #foldedscreenpainting #fold #byobu #屏風 #colors #colorful (at Acalanes Ridge, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjN5pi1rSfw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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abe-u-02 · 2 years

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西山に瑞雲　６曲屏風　（175×360㎝）

#2022 #nihonga #byobu

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kakemono-rollbilder-de-blog · 2 years

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Besondere Kunstwerke aus Japan finden Sie in unserem Onlineshop. Wir freuen uns über Ihren Besuch 🙂🙏 www.kakemono-rollbilder.de #japan #asian #kakemono #japanese #art #arts #dekoration #rollbilder #bilder #kunst #dojo #kampfkunst #japanese Artwork #tokio #kakejikuart #byobu #Nippon #Kakejiku #ukiyoe #ukiyoeart #Japan Holzdruck #makimonos #makimono #kranich #buddha #japanische Bilder #japanische Keramik #Ukiyo-e #Shikishi #japanische Kunstdrucke https://www.instagram.com/p/CfJ0qnoIZLk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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song-of-the-rune · 4 months

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you ever spend hours trying to figure out why something's not working only to realize that the reason is very simple. you see. I am using the wrong program. This is not the program that I thought I was sending commands to. So of course it does not understand them.

#byobu uses tmux in my defense so using tmux directly felt very familiar #until all my keyboard shortcuts were broken and I assumed it was a windows client issue #runic ramblings

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wanderingsimsfinds · 4 months

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WanderingSims Fave CC - Traditional Asian Décor List

1 - simbalances - Ohara Koson Prints

2 - ziggy28 - Virtue Asian Character Paintings (TSR)

3 - WanderingSims - Japan Wall Art

4 - chuchuwitch - Asian Paintings

5 - baufive - Flock of Woodcuts

6 - BionicZombie - 4t3 Snowy Escape Paintings

7 - baufive - Japanese Woodcuts

8 - LCC - Chinese Scroll Claborate Style Painting

9 - Devirose - Japanese Ideograms 1 (TSR)

10 - Devirose - Japanese Ideograms 2 (TSR)

11 - Devirose - Japanese Prints Collection (TSR)

12 - Devirose - Japanese Print 1 (TSR)

13 - Devirose - Japanese Print 2 (TSR)

14 - Devirose - Japanese Print 3 (TSR)

15 - Devirose - Japanese Art Collection 2 (TSR)

16 - ziggy28 - Japanese Scenes (TSR)

17 - Devirose - Japanese Art Collection 3 (TSR)

18 - Devirose - Japanese Manuscript (TSR)

19 - ziggy28 - Large Asian Cats Scroll (TSR)

20 - linasometimes - Wisteria & Blossom Paintings (TSR)

21, 25, 33, 37 - you-lust - Vaguely Japanese Pt. 1 Set (Eastern Blossoms Scroll, Blades of Masamune Wall, Japanese Cantankerous Splatter Painting, Zen Bonsai)

22, 32 - Kilhian - Japanese Painting Birds & Sea

23 - ohymysims - Painting Katsushika Hokusai

24, 27, 39-40, 52, 61 - you-lust - Vaguely Chinese Pt. 2 Set (Huabanzhu Chinese Scroll, Yuxi Winter Blossoms Scroll, MTSims Chinese Burner, The Daruma Wishing Doll, Yuxi Bamboo Slip, Shoyou Shoji Screen)

26 - MurfeeL - Wall Scrolls w/Tassels

28, 41, 70 - MurfeeL - Birthday 2020 Dump (EA WA EP Vintage Chinese Ads Framed, AMR Fan Decor Redone, Lacquer Byobu Decor)

29 - Living Dead Girl - Benjamin Bedroom Artwork Asian (TSR)

30, 38, 51, 54, 63 - you-lust - Vaguely Chinese Pt. 1 Set (Yuxi Tokonoma Series Scroll, The Little Jug of Wishes, Yuxi Dragon Scroll, Yuxi Scroll Clutter, Yuxi Ixinqin Screen)

31 - RD - From The East Wall Art

34-35, 50 - you-lust - Vaguely Japanese Pt. 2 Set (Yuxi Haruyo Morita Painting, BBSL Hanging Kimono, WFS Teapot)

36, 65-67 - KerriganHouseDesigns - Hayashi Set (Wallpanel, Floor Lamp, Golden Branch, Screen)

42-43 - you-lust - Azaya Fortune Cat & Higanbana Kokeshi Doll

44 - Martassimsbook - 4t3 novvvas Desierto Bedroom Buddha

45 - MurfeeL - Yokai E-Hon Books as Decor

46-47 - Ritsuka - Fortunate Cat & Japanese Lucky Cat

48 - Ziva-Sims - SimpleStudio404 Japanese Box Recs

49 - MurfeeL - MTCakestore Chinese Books Stackable

53 - HydrangeaChainsaw - Antique Set Chinese Table Lamp

55 - HydrangeaChainsaw - Sakura Bonsai

56 - you-lust - lisen-nymphy Buddha

57 - NoirandDarkSims - Mitarsi Kitsune

58 - SimpleStudio404 - Japanese Misc Set Emongake Deco

59 - you-lust - simaddict99 Oriental Paper Parasol

60, 68, 71-72, 76-77, 81-82 - TheNumbersWoman - Going Asian Outdoor Garden Set (Pagoda, Rock Path 2, Rock Path 1, Fountain, Ying Yang Garden, Water Feature, Deco Bridge Large, Apris Rocks Ponds) (TSR)

62 - Devirose - Japan Rug 1 (TSR)

64 - Angela - Kanto Garden Gong (TSR)

69, 73-75 - MurfeeL - C2077 Dashi no Matsuri Set (Parade Square Table Light, Parade Square Ceiling Light, Parade Round Ceiling Light, Parade Oval Ceiling Light)

78 - SIMCredible! - Asian Nook Fountain (TSR)

79 - DOT - Yard Wire Pole Lantern Mesh (TSR)

80 - SIMCredible! - Momentum Bamboo (TSR)

#cc list #ts3cc #s3cc #s3ccfinds #asian

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mysticdragon3art · 3 months

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New photoshoots I did this past week for GSCFanWeek.

SUBJECT(S): GSCFanWeek Last day's theme of "your figures celebrating GSC and another year of exciting figures". PROPS: Glitter foam sheet. Scrapbook paper. Rement miniatures Hinamatsuri risers. Acrylic standee of Good Smile Company logo. Curling ribbon, tinsel, etc. DIY minatures string of pendants. Rement minatures "Tea Time Collection"'s set "Antique Taisho Glassware".

FIGURES: Figma Miyuki Takara winter uniform version Nendoroid Date Masamune Nendoroid Sanada Yukimura SUBJECT(S): GSCFanWeek "It's Day 3 of #GSCFanWeek! Do you still remember your first figure that started your hobby as a collector? Tell us which one started it all for you using the template below!" PROPS: Scrapbook paper. DIY mini kin byobu

#GSCFanWeek #nendoroid #nendography #figure photography #figma #hatsune miku #vocaloid #sengoku basara #datesana #date masamune #sanada yukimura #miyuki takara #lucky star

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afranciscomiradiezblr-blog · 2 months

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Biombo-s-Pantalla-s-Paneles-Japón Imperio del sol naciente

Detalle. "Arce de otoño" byobu. finales del siglo XVIII. Biombo japonés. Tawaraya Sori.

#Esta es la imagen y algunos datos (O no) la “Historia” la pones tú ¡La tuya! ¿Lo harás?…¿Uno-a de los Nuestros?#¿historias cortas para no dormir?

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madarasgirl · 1 year

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Canadian Madara AU 🍁

@al-hekima-madara-blog: Can we have AU headcanon Madara as a North american guy? Maybe with japanese ancestry. I just wonder what type of job he would do, his hobbies, food preferences ect ect... Typical American boy😋

Of course I can write this! Thank you for this ask. It was fun! Madara will be Canadian here because that’s hilarious for me to write:

Speaks like a good Canadian boy: says “Eh” and “sorry” a lot even when it’s something minor and he isn’t at fault

Madara lives in Northern Canada away from other people in an igloo. He rides a moose to work

He dresses like a lumberjack (plaid shirt and jeans) and drinks maple syrup shots

Just kidding! You should have realized I was trolling the moment I said Madara apologizes a lot. And moose and igloos don’t exist in the same place. By the way, the English translations I’ve read don’t sound particularly Canadian to me for Madara. If anyone knows of the post highlighting how he sounds Canadian, please let me know! I’d love to read it!

But of course Madara can be Canadian because a Canadian can look and sound like anyone, including someone with Japanese heritage

Madara is exceptionally proud of his Japanese background, especially in a country with a smaller Japanese community than the other East Asian nationalities he is often mistaken for

His home contains a variety of Japanese items, such as katanas displayed on the walls, tatami mats, and byobu (folding screens with panels decorated with paintings and/or calligraphy). He owns several yukatas and kimonos

As much as he loves traditional Japanese food, he likes trying food from other cultures. He is spoiled for choices in his part of the country, but he most strongly prefers cuisines that aren’t too heavy

He is fluent in Japanese, French, and probably Mandarin and enjoys reading classical works in these languages in addition to English. He makes a point to occasionally speak in Japanese to his Japanese peers to maintain his language skills

Madara lives in the city away from the city center in a greatly overpriced mansion. However even in the suburbs, it is more densely populated than he enjoys, but he tolerates it because of its relative proximity to his job. Whenever he has a stretch of days off, he and Izuna often escape to cottage country a few hours’ drive away and engage in their outdoor hobbies. The cold doesn’t bother him

He is a black belt in karate. His other hobbies include rock climbing (especially bouldering since he appreciates the risk), archery, and Japanese calligraphy

He could be involved in the business world, but I can only vaguely hand-wave about ‘business things,’ so I’ll suggest something else I can see Madara doing that I’m familiar with instead

Madara is a thoracic surgeon (half of the ones I see are Japanese okay). He is excellent at his specialty, a perfectionist, and world renown for his surgical skill and medical knowledge. His surgeries are a work of art, but he’s a bit like an assembly line – patients in and out of his operating table. He fits the stereotypes of a surgeon too: Madara isn’t known for his bedside manners after all. He has a slight God complex due to his expertise, but even if he’s brusque, he remains adequately professional to his colleagues to avoid complaints

He actually destroys the image of the average Canadian’s polite speech patterns, which excessively contain “thank you,” “sorry,” and other hedging language. Madara doesn’t waste his time with these pointless words. Everything he says is meaningful, otherwise he wouldn’t bother speaking at all

…Madara doesn’t care about hockey…

Hope you enjoyed this little piece!

#madara headcanons #madara uchiha #uchiha madara #madara #answered ask #my asks

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windermeresimblr · 1 year

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The Lady of the Hibiscus Pavilion (A Heian-Era Lookbook)

A woman of the Heian court has rolled up the sudare blinds...

C.C. Credits

#sims 3 lookbook #sims 3 medieval

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prfm-multiverse · 1 year

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Perfume will be the MC for the "Mystery Solving! Secret Treasures" will be aired on NHK BS4K/BSP

4/14(Fri.) from 21:30 The 1st "Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu Funaki-bon 4/29(Sat) 10:40~ (JST) The 2nd "Aburidome Tenmoku Tea Bowl

https://www6.nhk.or.jp/nhkpr/

#2023 #prfm #perfume #NHK #Mystery Solving! Secret Treasures #nocchi #a-chan #kashiyuka

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douglaswittnebel · 2 years

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Folded painted landscape prototype piece wood base #art #artwork #artist #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #dougwittnebel #acrylic #acryliconcanvas #acryliclandscape #painting #landscape #landscapepainting #california #californialandscape #pointrichmondgallery #folded #foldedscreenpainting #fold #byobu #屏風 (at Acalanes Ridge, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIjAKHrFcH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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