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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 9:02:18 GMT -5
More Choju-giga. I'm pretty sure the monkey at right is not just wearing a costume made of leaves, he is wearing armor made of leaves. My interpretation is tht he is receiving a blaessing from the priest monkey before going into a tournament or fight of some kind. I'm not really sure where this fragment fits into the overall emaki. It's obviously from the "first scroll", but the representations of the whole first scroll that I have seen don't include it.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Oct 22, 2014 16:51:58 GMT -5
We went to see the restored Choju Giga scrolls yesterday at the Kyoto National Museum. As I squint at the miniature version included with my exhibition catalog, Scroll One begins (running right to left) with the animals bathing scenes, then segues to an archery competition between teams of rabbits and frogs. Next are rabbits, frogs and a fox acting as porters under the direction of a rabbit with a fan who appears to be waving them towards the archery, possibly they are bringing refreshments. Rabbit leading a stag, apparently being blessed by a monkey priest, followed by a frog leading a boar. Monkey being chased by rabbit in the middle of what appears to be yet more pilgrim animals. Rabbit doing ROTFL surrounded by frogs, apparently sharing a joke. More animals headed towards the left where another monkey priest sits before an altar.
I think the leaf hat animals are a different scroll, let me see if I can turn them up with a further look.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 9:34:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 10:06:04 GMT -5
Traced from the Ippen Shonen Eden (Pictorial Biography of Priest Ippen) emaki. I'm pretty happy with the way this one came out. The images are fairly small in the original, but enlarging them brought out a bunch of interesting detail. The original detail, the physical attitudes and expressions of the people, the way the positions of their clothing shows motion, this is all fascinating to me from a storytelling perspective. Priest Ippen was the founder of the Amidist sect of Buddhism, and this scroll was created soon after his death. The emaki is dated 1299, and Ippen lived from 1239 to 1289. The text was written by Ippen’s direct disciple Shikai. Despite his relatively short lifetime, his biography stretches across 12 scrolls, each at least 30 feet long and made of silk, not paper. Although here I focus on figures, the scrolls are predominantly landscape and poetry. Grilli writes that in this scene, Ippen instructs the son of another priest. Wikipedia refers to this scene as Ippen and the Warrior and claims that the warrior is a convert to Ippen's "Pure Land Buddhism". To me, it looks like Ippen is remonstrating the warrior, and the warrior doesn't like it one bit. The warrior is preparing to draw his sword, and so is one of his henchmen. The third henchman looks like he's whistling for backup.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 22:01:39 GMT -5
I stopped posting in this thread for the past month, but I didn't stop working on scroll blanks until recently. This image is from the second set of “36 Poets” attributed to Fujiwara no Nobuzane. This set shows the poets seated on mats. Kintada lived in the tenth century, so this “portrait” could not have used the person of Kintada as a model. However, an attempt was made to capture the character of Kintada using a few simple lines, in the “nise-e” style. Traced from 36 Poets, Kintada, by Nobuzane Kamakura period (1185 to 1333), in the Freer gallery of Art, Washington
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2014 6:04:43 GMT -5
The painter Sesshu represents a rebirth during the Muromachi period of the painting traditions of China in Japan. Sesshu visited China in his youth and the school of painting he founded back in Japan influenced the next few generations of Japanese painters. This image is actually a reproduction of a painting by the Chinese painter Hsia Kuei. Traced from Winter Landscape, by Sesshu (1420 to 1506) Muromachi period (1333 to 1573), in the National Museum, Tokyo
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2014 7:21:12 GMT -5
Eventually, I realized that I did not have to just trace existing scrolls. Given the right subject and a little contrast enhancement, photographs of objects would work just fine. This yamato-e was traced from a photograph of an antique ivory netsuke, inspired by hakubyo style scrolls like the Choju Giga emaki. Original artwork is an Albino Hare Netsuke in the collection of the Maridon Museum in Butler, PA.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2014 12:52:01 GMT -5
Can somebody please help me figure out what I'm looking at here? archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/I mean, I know that I'm looking at photographs of books in the archives of the Waseda University Library, but I can't find my way to this collection through the main library site, and most of the explanations are in Japanese. I even know what some of them are, but that doesn't help much. For instance, I can tell that he04/he04_08053/ contains three difference versions of Shokunin Uta-awase Emaki, but are these historical documents, modern reproductions, or what? This site might be a trove of good research material, or it might be mostly useless. I don't know.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2014 11:42:40 GMT -5
Here's another tracing of a photograph of a netsuke. Ivory netsuke are especially easy to trace given the high-contrast original. Original artwork is an Ivory Katabori Netsuke of a Horse lying down, unsigned.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2014 9:48:00 GMT -5
I think the leaf hat animals are a different scroll, let me see if I can turn them up with a further look. My most wonderful and beloved wife, Lady Hara, got me a copy of Hideo Okudaira's 1969 Choju Giga book as a present. This book has a large print of what Okudaira refers to as "Scroll A", and the accompanying text includes reduced-size copies of the other three scrolls. The " Blessing of the Leaf-Armored Monkey" does not appear in any of the scrolls that were preserved at Kozan-ji. However, Okudaira says that a copy of the Choju Giga was found in the collection of the Sumiyoshi family. The content and ordering in this 1598 copy are slightly different from the Kozan-ji version. The Sumiyoshi copy has five scrolls instead of four, and the third scroll of the Sumiyoshi copy has no counterpart in the Kozan-ji version. This image is possibly from that. This would explain why the person who uploaded the image to Wikimedia captioned it as "part of the third scroll". Anyway, all you really need to know is that there is more than one version, these versions differ, and the exact content and ordering is open to discussion.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Dec 26, 2014 13:40:24 GMT -5
Ooh, lucky, LUCKY you! Not one I have - and Amazon wants a lot of money for their one copy listed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2014 16:08:59 GMT -5
Here's another Sesshu copy, a scene from the Long Scroll, which depicts scenes from the four seasons. I'm really happy with the way this one came out. Traced from the Long Scroll, by Sesshu (1420 to 1506) Muromachi period (1333 to 1573), Hofu Mori Hokokai Foundation, Yamaguchi
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2015 20:32:21 GMT -5
Another not-emaki illustration, is this portriat of the deity Fudou. Fudou is the patron of those who serve as warriors, one of the Five Great Kings of Light who were introduced to Japan through the Buddhist traditions of India. Although praised as a destroyer of evil, Fudou is also credited with wisdom, and is invoked to bring rain. He is typically represented as seated on an immovable stone, backed by flames, wielding a sword and a rope. Fudou has sworn to use the sword to destroy evil spirits, and the rope to bind the wicked and coerce them towards good. Traced from a silk painting of Fudou Ninth century CE, in the Myou-ou-in repository on Mt. Kouya
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Jan 7, 2015 9:14:05 GMT -5
Another not-emaki illustration, is this portriat of the deity Fudou. That came out VERY well. You're really developing your skills! Hana
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2015 8:17:17 GMT -5
I was leafing through J. Edward Kidder's The Art of Japan, and when I saw the below image of Prince Shotoku, I had to copy it. This image was used by THL Ismay Ponde on my Fleur (OHM A&S) Scroll, and I adore it. Looking into it further, I've seen at east five versions of this image, all executed slightly differently. I should keep looking and try to find the prototype they are all obviously copied from. Prince Shotoku was appointed regent by his aunt, Empress Suiko, in 593 CE. He is credited with many accomplishments, such as centralizing the government, establishing the 12-level cap rank system for officials, establishing a 17-article constitution, publishing the first Japanese texts (annotated Sutras), and choosing the name “Nihon” for Japan. He is revered today as a protector of Japan, its Imperial Family, and Buddhism. Traced from a portrait of Prince Shoutoku, His Brother, and His First Son Seventh Century, preserved by the Imperial Household Agency, TokyoThere was a "collection point" for the scroll blank challenge at this weekend's Kingdom 12th Night event, and I turned in 59 scroll blanks. When the Kingdom Signet, Baroness Ekaterina Volkova, announced that 77 blanks had been turned in, I knew I was about to be called into court. I received a very nice ceramic brush rest from the Signet and a wonderful beaded bracelet from the Queen, in thanks.
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