Category: Spring

  • 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…

  • Now with paint

    Now with paint

  • Experiments

    Experiments

    My next big work is to be a re-imagining of a page from the Sanju-rokunin Kashu, Collection of 36 Anthologies. This is one of my favourite pieces, an autumn themed piece that I have decided make into a spring-themed one. The background paper is plain Japanese metallic paper that I have been very lucky to…