Produced excellent surimono such as here showing a sumptuously attired courtesan representing Kyoto from a set of three surimono Sangoku-shi no toen ketsugi, a History of the Three Kingdoms. (A play on the Chinese states of Wei, Shu and Wu during AD 220-280, but here being Kyoto, Edo...
The National Gallery’s Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings, Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax hopes that Geelong and Victorian audiences will add the names Spowers and Syme to their knowledge of ground-breaking women artists from the era including Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Dorrit Black and G...
An alternative interpretation notes that fuki (富貴) can symbolize peonies as well as female beauty, a flower associated with wealth, while choushun (長春) is linked to roses, representing everlasting spring or eternal youth. This mark was primarily used during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), a...
To accomplish this goal, Rain of Flowers along the Silk Road introduces the fictional character Yunus, a wealthy Persian merchant who provides the audiences a vision of the historical figure of Peroz III, the last Sassanian prince, who after the Arab conquest of Iran in 651 C.E., found ...
Japanese Names That Mean Fallen Angel Tenma (天魔)– Heavenly demon; an angel that has fallen from grace. Akuma (悪魔)– Demon; representing a fallen angel. Yami (闇)– Darkness; symbolizes the fallen state from light. Kurayami (暗闇)– Deep darkness; indicates the loss of light and grace...
100 Sweet Japanese Girl NamesBy Beth Roberts | Last Updated June 2, 2022 In Japanese culture, it is usual to address adults by their family name, but children are referred to differently. This explains why there are so many charming Japanese baby girl names centered on nature, beauty, and ...
To awaken a sense of connection to nature, the aim is to to really slow down and use all our senses to take in the surrounding scenery… The sounds of birdsong; the motion of leaves swaying in the breeze; the smell of recent rains or nearby flowers. Without realising at the time, I ...
As flowers the Buddhists use the water-lily, the Shintoists, the branches of a pale-leaved tree called Sasaki. There are also in every house the I-hai, wooden tablets or shelves on which are written the posthumous names of the parents and ancestors of the family. A lamp is lit every ...
In the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia study, 100 test samples included samples of seeds and powders, while in our study we chose the 100 test samples representing crude drugs: i) originating from different medicinal parts (including the roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds); ii) from ...
The Gachirin is a defining attribute of Gakkō Bosatsu, who is often shown in statues/paintings wearing a headpiece representing the moon or holding a circular moon-shape in his hand. The Gachirin is also found often on Buddhist grave stones called Gorinto. The moon and sun are part of ...