GOOSE AND MOON

#Goose #moon #inro #japaneselacquer

 With Covid limiting international travel even those of us with money (ha not me!) can only dream of an autumn moon viewing or seeing geese crossing the skies. Where I live you might just seen some fruit bats or cockatoos flying through last of the daylight but geese across the moon ? NO.

So enjoy this Inro instead. Perhaps the first owner dreamed of flying free like the geese?

AUTUMN MOON

#autumnmoon, #moon, #shinhanga 

 Actually I have no idea what time of the year this image was set but it shows a full moon and its Autumn / Spring moon next festival and its gorgeous Shin Hanga Print!

Here's wishing any and all of my viewers readers and followers an enjoyable festival!

Don't overdo it with those Moon Cakes!

Jakuchu - Plum Blossoms and the Moon

#jakuchu #plumblossoms #moon #scroll #painting

Jakuchu a 18th century Japanese painter was known for colorful works but in this painting his approach is both minimalist and maximalist. The tones are simple mostly gray with a hint of brown on the trunk and branches and the moon is a flat circle. Yet behold the glorious complexity of the crossing branches thick and thin like the brush strokes used to render them and the mass of white plum blossom is almost Rimpa style!