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 fujiwara no kinto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fujiwara no kinto. Show all posts
Friday, 3 July 2020
and oh those poets ...
Another #Yoshitoshi print this time depicting Fujiwara no Kinto a famous Heian poet offering an unseen person a branch of plum blossom on a fan. This is a depiction of male beauty expressed as style and elegance. His black over-robe is a fine silk gauze? The under robe is a dark red and we see a glimpse of purple trousers and his footprints in the snow?
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