Saionji Shonagon
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Jan 13, 2015 14:52:59 GMT -5
Dang, you've been prolific. I have just challenged myself - pending translation of the necessary text - to attempt my own Western Lily scroll while documenting the process. Whether or not it is a complete train wreck, I want to try to document the process and add it to the web page I just published.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 7:37:23 GMT -5
We're nearing the end of the challenge blanks, so let's see if I can post my way through to the end of this stack, at least. A friend lent me his copy of The Way of the Carpenter by William Coaldrake so I could further my studies on Japanese woodworking. It's been helpful for that, of course, but it's also a good source of illustrations for reproduction. Traced from the Matsuzaki tenjin engi emaki, Scroll 4 (Dated to 1311 CE). The sharp-eyed will note that I mirrored the image before tracing, but forgot to fix the overlaps of the toryu's suikan. This set of scrolls shows the construction of the Matsuzaki temple. This scroll in the set specifically shows the erection of the temple’s frame. This scroll shows a great deal of detail about Japanese timber frame construction, the tools used, and the practices of the people who use them. This images shows the Touryou (chief master carpenter) with his long kensao (measuring stick), ready to check the dimensions of the framework. Also, some news. This past weekend was the event in Aethelmearc known as "The Festival of the Passing of the Ice Dragon". This event was also the second and final drop-off date for submissions to the scroll blank challenge. I haven't submitted any scroll blanks since January's 12th Night event, but my total since then was still greater than anybody else's. The winner of the second half was Baron Caleb Reynolds, a prolific artist himself. Between the two of us, we completed about half of the total number of scroll blanks submitted to the challenge! I have a couple of his excellency's many*many scrolls in my own collection, so it was an honor for me to stand alongside him in court.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 7:08:12 GMT -5
Traced from The Journey to the East Circa 750 CE, in Toushoudai-ji, Nara Prefecture Not a lot of information on this one in the book I traced it from. The scroll basically details events from the life of the Buddha. In the original image, these three are seated on a mat that's on the deck of a boat. I'm not sure about the artist's decision to place the one priest almost completely behind the other except for his head so that they look like conjoined twins. I think if I do this one again, I will just portray the two complete people.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 6:21:11 GMT -5
Traced from Shigisan Engi (Tales of Mt. Shigi) 12th Century CE, preserved at Chougosonshi-ji Temple, Nara Prefecture There are three scrolls in this set, but only the third one is an emaki. The first two are all text. All three relate the miracles performed by the Bishamon, the chief of the four heavenly kings. These miracles were frequently performed through the medium Myouren, who lived as an ascetic on a mountain top. The Chougosonshi-ji temple is built where many of the events are said to have occurred. In this image, a servant attends to the horse of a rich merchant who has come to implore Myouren for the return of a storehouse full of rice which has flown to Myouren’s abode. See, every morning Myouren's begging bowl would fly down to merchant's storehouse to be filled. Then, it would fly home to Myouren. One busy morning, this duty was neglected, and the entire storehouse flew to Myouren instead.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 5:51:26 GMT -5
Traced from the Sanjuniban Shokunin Uta-awase EmakiCirca 1500 CE, this portion in the Suntory Museum of Art These kobiki (sawyers) use an oga (two-person frame saw) to rip a large lumber beam into boards. The kobiki above the beam is the master, who directs the cut according to the markings he has made in ink. The assistant below helps provide the power for sawing. The teeth on most oga face in two directions so that the saw cuts on both the up and down stroke. Coaldrake feels that the presence of this activity in this scroll indicates that by this time, cutting lumber was an important profession.
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Saionji Shonagon
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Apr 30, 2015 18:26:50 GMT -5
I really like this one! Your drawing skills have come such a long way in such a short time. Color me impressed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 21:05:16 GMT -5
I really like this one! Your drawingtracing skills have come such a long way in such a short time. Color me impressed. There, I fixed it for you. Thanks for the compliment, but really I still have no drawing skills. I have gotten much better at tracing with a brush, though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 8:44:14 GMT -5
While doing all this research into emaki, I became particularly enamored of the "Shokunin" scrolls that show tradespeople doing their jobs. Not only are they useful for scroll blanks that match the craft of a particular person, they are also good for documenting particular crafts and objects to particular times. While doing some web searches recently, I found this one - www.hyogo-c.ed.jp/~rekihaku-bo/historystation/digital-exhibitions/ebanashi/ka0009_en.htmlApparently owned by the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, the Muromachi-era "Nanajuichiban Shokunin Utaawase" documents 142 professions in three scrolls. Given my recent activities, I will draw your attention to the binzasara-wielding dancer and kute-uchi hand braider in scroll #3.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Nov 2, 2016 23:09:09 GMT -5
Just went all Choju Giga on my parrying fan.
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Post by Please Delete on Nov 3, 2016 7:11:20 GMT -5
I love it!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 10:17:22 GMT -5
Just went all Choju Giga on my parrying fan. Sugoi!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 9:32:06 GMT -5
Here's a recent work based on a porcelain sculture title "Rabbit" that I saw in the Tokyo National Museum. The sculpture is by Tsuda Shinobu, and is from 1934. This illustration is in the Yamato-e style, and is traced from a photograph.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 14:55:55 GMT -5
OK, so while I was in the Tokyo National Museum I saw an emaki on display that I can't find anywhere on the web or in any of the books on emaki that I have. It's from the Muromachi period, so right on target as far as my persona goes. You can guess where this is going. I was that dude in the museum who takes picture after picture of the same exhibit so that he has a record of every square inch of the thing. Click. Step. Repeat. No tripod, no flash, low lighting, through glass, at an angle, sigh. Anyway, here's the first traced image I based on the Takekurabe Soshi. I've put together a whole digital recreation of the scroll here - www.ee0r.com/gallery/japan2016/takekurabesoshi/index.html
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 12:27:42 GMT -5
From the Narikane version of the 36 Immortal Poets in the collection of the Met Museum, from the Kamakura Period (12-14th cent.) Sumi ink and watercolors on hosho (mulberry and sulphate) paper During the Nara and Heian periods (8th to 13th centuries), poetry contests (”uta-awase”) were a popular pastime for courtly nobles. Near the end of the 10th century, two poets argued about who was the greatest poet ever, and decided to record their choices. Thus, competing lists of the 36 Immortal Poets were born. Taira no Narikane compiled, and calligraphied his own list in the late 13th century, and included the poet Fujiwara Kiyotada. The illustration is by an unknown artist. The original is "hakubyo" monochrome, but I added color for visual interest. I gave the first one colors to be pretty. I gave the second one colors to match the outfit I wore in Kyoto. I gave the third one the colors of an outfit I hope to have.
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Saionji Shonagon
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Mar 1, 2017 13:00:47 GMT -5
Your drawing skills are getting better and better!
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