SEITEI _ Brushes and paper

 SEITEI _ Brushes and paper 

A lovely Print showing us traditional writing brushes and bowls f ink and black and red being used on paper to create fans and we can see three different types of brushes one with ultralong hairs for fine detail another middle size one and a large third one ! 

Tomoe Gozen again - GEKKO Print

 Found another great print of Tomoe Gozen the famous woman warrior to share !

#Tomoegozen #womanwarrior #japaneseprint

This one is from a series by GEKKO 

CANGJIE and APRIL 20

 #Cangjie #keyboard 

April 20 is Chinese language Day and one of the people remembered on that day is CANG JIE himself.

Yes the Cangjie keyboard input method is named after a person the mythical creator of Oracle Bone script. 

Unlike Insert Special Characters or Unihan for Cangjie you have a direct keyboard link if you have your computer set up to do Cangjie input ! personally I prefer Unicode but I may trying to finally learn how to use Cangjie but Im so used to Unihan it will take a while.

Here's another example of Cangjie

If you are some one who thinks about the components of Chinese characters this system may work better for you but you still have to learn some code to input it just not Unihan which works on the symbol being assigned a number combination!

I'm not going to type more about Cangjie cos Wikipedia has an excellent article on him which I feel no need to comment on apart from suggesting you do read it.

For Chinese language day please consider sharing one of my prior posts on this blog ?

Qing Dynasty Armour

 #qing #dynasty #armor 

QING DYNASTY ARMOR

For contrast to my prior post here's a reconstruction using antique armour on models of what and how #Qing Dynasty Armour looked like. Our high ranking aristocrat a general or prince has quilted over robes and is probably wearing metal lates or a coat of scales under the robes. 

Whoever put this together remembered to insert plumes into the top of the helmet probably having consulted paintings showing military processions or campaigns.

TOMOE GOZEN on Horseback

 #tomoegozen #japaneseprint #ukiyo-e 

TOMOE GOZEN

Tomoe Gozen was an actual historical character a woman warrior though the clothers she wears here look more like a Kabuki costume than anything wore in or out of armor by a Heian warrior aristocrat?

However the detail is gorgeous and costume errors beside the details of the swirling horse tail and the swirling ponytail of hair are quite striking plus the stance of the horse tho that costume ...?

Given how rarely women rode horses in public in any era of Japanese history is there a story behind this image. Had he actually seen a woman on horseback or not ? 

Rain at Kanazawa by Hiroshige

 #hiroshige #kanazawa #japaneseprint 

Continuing our Rain Theme here's a print by Hiroshige 

Kanazawa Rain 

Note how the rain obscured mountains or trees in the distance are balanced by the hut roofs and I think stacks of hay from rice or smaller huts in the middle right and foreground.

Note also the use of diagonals.

A "masterclass" in how to use greys and pale tints without an image becoming dreary