A pleasingly elegant image of Benten the Japanese Buddhist equivalent of Sarasvati riding a dragon while playing her lute.
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.
Showing posts with label Benten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benten. Show all posts
Monday, 31 August 2020
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, 27 December 2014
Seasons Greetings
bumping last years card cos no ideas yet for xmas 2016
Thats a Japanese Buddhist version of the Goddess of Fortune !
and may you also experience wisdom insight access to good learning and enlightenment
This image is Benten the Japanese version of Sarasvati.
Friday, 21 February 2014
Japanese Benten
Here's the Japanese equivalent of Sarasvati. You can see the Chinese influence on the iconography and painting style.
Dear readers I am bumping older blog posts done before I set up a cross link with google+. As the widget that does this will not cross post (PRE)scheduled posts please use the Share button so other people can enjoy these posts. This is one of a sequence of 4 posts showing how depictions of Sarasvati changed from India to Japanese and elsewhere.
Friday, 27 December 2013
Sarasvati Benten Three
Now for some Chinese / Japanese images.
I couldn't find a good image of Biancaitian as shes known in China so I've tried to pick Japanese images that show a strong Chinese influence.
Frankly I'm not sure if this first image is modern Chinese or Japanese and it does show a slight manga / anime influence but the goddess is depicted as a princess / lady of rank in Chinese costume.
this second image was painted in 18th century Japan but the artist clearly seems to have modelled his work on an older piece perhaps a badly damaged scroll imported centuries earlier from China a painting that had to be replaced? If you're familiar with both Chinese and Japanese painting the Chinese influence is very strong ... very.
I couldn't find a good image of Biancaitian as shes known in China so I've tried to pick Japanese images that show a strong Chinese influence.
Frankly I'm not sure if this first image is modern Chinese or Japanese and it does show a slight manga / anime influence but the goddess is depicted as a princess / lady of rank in Chinese costume.
this second image was painted in 18th century Japan but the artist clearly seems to have modelled his work on an older piece perhaps a badly damaged scroll imported centuries earlier from China a painting that had to be replaced? If you're familiar with both Chinese and Japanese painting the Chinese influence is very strong ... very.
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