Gifts ...for my tea tasting

[Lady Kimiko]

For our annual Christmas Party (aka Yule Feast) I wanted to offer some gifts to those who attended my tea tasting and history class. So, I teamed up with a local artist who is also in the SCA and created these... I did the research, she did the epic art. The artist herself did great work and Im honored to have been able to make use of her fantastic talents.

*Hand made paper
*The themes in each painting is specifically tailored to a period poem
*The themes and poems are tailored to a winter tea tasting
*The painting are in the sume monochrome style made popular in the momoyama.
*The scrolls themselves are not period in style..just in spirit.

The primary themes in the paintings are....
*Hares *The Moon *Plovers *Bamboo *Pine - all of which are December / winter themes


And so I present...the mini scrolls:

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Those are absolutely awesome. Can we have your zen name changed from "the reason we can't have nice things" to "the reason there are nice things"?

On a related note, one of things I do is make my own greeting cards. I found that modern inkjet printers can produce high quality output on some spiffy papers. If you have access to a scanner, you could scan in those wonderful scrolls, print them out, and never buy greeting cards again. The artist might appreciate having some of these, too.

[Saionji Shonagon]

Cool!

I find emakimono to be a wonderful source when I'm looking for ideas for imagery for this sort of thing.

Some references for you.

Okudaira, Hideo. Emaki: Japanese Picture Scrolls. Charles E. Tuttle Co. (1962) and Okudaira, Hideo. Narrative Picture Scrolls (Vol. 5, Arts of Japan). Weatherhill/Shibundo (1973). ISBN 0834827115 are both out of print, but you may be able to find them used.

[Suzuki Ken'ichi]

If you do a Google search on the ISBN, you'll turn up several places selling Narrative Picture Scrolls, including Alibris, which has listings starting in the dollar range.