A HUGE thank you and shout out to everyone sharing photos on social media from Japan of this years cherry blossom !!! #hanami #sakurami #cherryblossom #sakura #hokusai
A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Saturday, 31 March 2018
Hokusai Cherry Blossom Print
A HUGE thank you and shout out to everyone sharing photos on social media from Japan of this years cherry blossom !!! #hanami #sakurami #cherryblossom #sakura #hokusai
Sunday, 25 March 2018
Monday, 19 March 2018
Saturday, 10 March 2018
Benten Riding a Dragon
Its uses a restrained palette of minimal colors, black, green and red and hues and tints thereof and a composition of overlapping loops and curves.
#ukioyo-e style and technique at its best.
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
IDW and East Asian goddesses
For #idw 2018 I'm sharing a medley of East Asian deities
A classic #dehua statuette of #guanyin
A classic #dehua statuette of #guanyin
Kuanyin as protectoress of children ... with dogs? Why I have no idea but I like the image!
The Japanese depicted Lakhshimi as a tang princess
I have a special fondness for Benten
This is a #surimono #ukiyo-e #print
Back to China for the final image
The Mother of Lightning
Saturday, 3 March 2018
Dog Watching a Bird
#yearofthedog #japanesebookcover
We tend to forget #ukiyo-e is a design style applied not just to prints of actors or landscapes or pinup geisha girls but also other paper objects like this book cover showing a dog watching a bird flying overhead.
We tend to forget #ukiyo-e is a design style applied not just to prints of actors or landscapes or pinup geisha girls but also other paper objects like this book cover showing a dog watching a bird flying overhead.
The artist is not Hokusai or Hiroshige and the line work is rough but it has depicted the personality of the dog and a look of keen intelligence.
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