Category: painting

  • Manuscripts from Tokugawa Art Museum

    Manuscripts from Tokugawa Art Museum

    While in Japan I was also able to visit the Tokugawa Art Museum, where a number of manuscripts were exhibited, here are two which are examples of kana art and paper decoration This is a fragment known as Rokujō-gire is from the poetry anthology Hachidai–wakashō and it traditionally attributed to Emperor Kōgon from the 14th…

  • Souvenir from Japan trip

    Souvenir from Japan trip

    Been a few months since I posted but should have some more pieces soon, cut recently came back from Japan and picked up this for 500 yen from a used book store While I am not exactly sure what it is of what it says, I believe this is a poetry card.

  • Blue sky and snow – finished

    Blue sky and snow – finished

    The two pieces have finished now and I am quite pleased with the result, though the contrast seems to work much better with the electric blue one

  • Genji Emaki Monogatari

    Genji Emaki Monogatari

    For an Arts and Sciences competition category, For a Love, I decided to look in to the novel Genji Monogatari, seen as the worlds first novel by the female writer and poet, Murasaki Shibiku. I have chosen to base this off the 12th century manuscript of the work. This manuscript uses both gold and silver…

  • Now with paint

    Now with paint