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An original drawing, sumi on thin paper laid onto Japanese paper, 6.5 x 9.25 in; 15.9 x 23.5 cms. A heavily muscled individual (Benkei ?) dispatching two adversaries. Sold “as is” with all imperfections common to surviving drawings. Two areas of pentimenti. Status: Available Tags: Availa...
There is an original drawing, most likely for this triptych, elsewhere on this site. A much sought after design. Very fine impression. Fine colour. Completely untrimmed with the extra margins around. Fine condition. Signed Yoshitoshi ga. Status: Available Tags: Available, Flora and Fauna, ...
I will close with a superb 13th century sculpture of Raijin from a temple in Kyoto. Sculpture of the Thunder God Raijin from Kyoto, 13th century. Posted in Edo, Japanese Acrobats, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, Kunisada, ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art | Tagged Great Dragon Troupe, ...
With nary an introduction, the four-piece took the stage and flooded the gallery with copious washes of sound. The blurb above is pretty apt; comparisons to other Japanese bands such as OOIOO, the Boredoms, Boris, and Acid Mothers Temple might also be appropriate, though I sense that the ...
Drawing in pen and black ink over pencil National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra Gift of Chris Montgomery 1993 Photo:Marcus Bunyan At the end of 1936 Spowers held her sixth and final solo exhibition. It was a survey of old favourites and new works, spanning a decade of imagination...
Translation is a constant dance with the original, now drawing close to it, now pirouetting away, now coming back again. An endless dance. Maybe the goal is to hear the same music, dance to the same beat as the author. I take a kind of musical approach to translation in general––...
At first, he was a "kasshiki", an attendant charged with announcing mealtimes to the monks, working under Daiko Sogen at Daitoku-ji Temple. However, with Daiko Sogen's help, he became an adopted child of Ryozen when he was around 12 or 13 years of age. After that, he researched the...
It was a sanmaya-type line drawing of the Taizōkai Mandala, one closely related to the Taizō Zuzō. A copy of it (dated to 1019) is preserved at Daigoji Temple醍醐寺 in Kyoto, and it is considered Japan’s oldest extant copy of such iconographical line drawings. Finally, the San...
The latter word means to “dispel, punch out, push away, beat away." According to the legends of Japan’s Mt. Hiei shrine-temple multiplex, this makes the monkey an “expeller of demons” -- in other traditions, the monkey is also thought to ward off thieves. In addition, Mt. Hiei ...