'Fine Wind, Clear Weather' also known as 'Red Fuji' from the series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' - Katsushika Hokusai, 1830-31. #JapaneseArt#ukiyoe#MtFuji#Japan
The legacy of kaze no kami today is that in the Japanese language, a common cold is called 'kaze' which translates as 'evil wind.' Web version with more windy ukiyo-e art here: https://www.curiousordinary.com/2022/02/kazenokami.html?m=1 #JapaneseArt#ukiyoe#MythologyMonday
🎨1. Kaze-no-kami - Takehara Shunsen, 1841.
2. Flowers in the Wind - Utagawa Toyokuni, 1795.
3. Matthew Meyer.
4 Two Girls Walking on a Windy Day - Suzuki Harunobu, 1769.
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#Baturday:
Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
Tray with #Bats in Flight above a Stream
Japan, Edo-Meiji periods, 1860-90
Cypress wood with gold & silver lacquer
From The Life of Animals in #JapaneseArt exhibition at National Gallery of Art DC (2019)
I haven't been around here much because I was finishing up some study, had some health issues, lost my cat, and was struggling to juggle multiple platforms. But I'm going to try again. Thanks so much to anyone who has stuck with me while I've been MIA. Here is a Japanese ukiyo-e print to begin. 'Full Moon on the Arakawa River in Akabane' from the series 'Twenty Views of Tokyo' by Kawase Hasui, 1929. #JapaneseArt#ukiyoe#FullMoon
"Festival Night Fireworks," Yamamura Toyonari, 1924.
A beautiful woodblock print that won't scare the dogs! And did you know that we owe the flowerlike forms of fireworks to the Japanese? They loved the image of a peony or chrysanthemum against the night sky.