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Question by Daryl C: I have a silk painting from Japan that was done in the early ’60′s. Does anyone know what it’s worth?
It’s a painting of the last supper

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Answer by Dr Awkward
A painting of the last supper, made in Japan? heh… that’s good
I don’t have a clue but I guess you’d need to know the artist and/or style and maybe the studio from where it came. At least some more info will be required to get any appraisal on the work. Try searching the net with terms like.. japanese, last supper, silk, appraisal, etc. maybe you’ll get lucky.

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Japan Painting

Question by Jen: watz my name?
THE TANG DYNASTY

The period during which China was ruled under the Tang dynasty (618-907 C. E.) is considered by Historians as China’s golden period. The early part of this dynasty was one of the best periods for peasants due to meaningful tax and land reforms. Polotical reforms made the Tang dynasty China’s most sophisticated political state in the world at the time. The Tang capital city- Chang-an (today known as Xian)’s a growing city drawing merchants and travelers from Asia, the near East and even the Mediterranean.
One of the greatest achievements during the peace of the Tang leadership is when the important religion of Buddhism really flourished. In many religions, Buddhism coexisted with the native ideas of Taoism; in some religions, a blending of Chinese (Taoist) and Buddhist traditions. Buddhism was aided by the efforts of Chinese Buddhists such as Fa Hsien who made a journey to India in the late 4th and early 5th centuries in search of original Buddhism texts. He returned to China with several texts and spent the rest of his life translating them.
The prosperity of the Tang, combined with the influences brought in by the Silk Road trade, resulting in parts of China with scholarships and especially in the production of fine arts including sculpturing and painting. The most famed achievement in the eyes of some was Tang literature in particular the poetry of this period. Poets such as Li Bo and Tu Fu are still considered the greatest poets produced by Chinese civilization. These poets blended traditional forms dating back to the Shang period, but also blended influences from other cultures inn Central Asia and even farter away.
During the golden age of the Tang dynasties, more important achievements were made by the Chinese, inventions such as block printing and gunpowder were developed. This was also the period when Chinese technology produced the mariner’s compass and the water clock. As a result of the tremendous prosperity enabled by trade, paper currency was developed, as well as sophisticated methods of banking.
China’s achievements were in fact so impressive that the civilizations of Korea, Japan and countries in Southeast Asia were influenced by China’s culture.

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Answer by madbaldscotsman
You never identified an individual to name.

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Memories of Japan


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Advent 16 (Dec 15)
In 1988 I spent a summer as a missionary/English teacher in Japan. Here are a few of my tokens from that trip. On the write is a Bible verse in Japanese. I would love it if someone could tell me which one! I am not sure my light was very bright that summer, but it was amazing to live with those who had to make great sacrifices for their faith.

Kumihimo: Japanese Silk Braiding Techniques (Basic Marudai Braids)

An introduction to the ancient art of Japanese silk braiding. The book contains a variety of elegant and complex braids, which can be used as decoration, tie-backs for curtains, or jewellery. It also offers instructions for making 12 different braids.

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Painted silk


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After visiting the temple, we found this vendor in an area near the temple, although not in the main market area. All of these are hand painted on silk, although they were painting to specific patterns.

When my colleague told her that this was the first souvenir I was buying in Japan, she insisted on giving me and my colleague each a small napkin as well.

Tokyo, Japan, June 2009

Japanese craftsmen making sushi, woodblock prints and painting on silk at the Tokyo Metropolitan Authority Exhibition in the Queen Elisabeth 2 Conference Centre on 31 Jan 2010.
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DVD Title: Silk Painting with Jill Kennedy Jill Kennedy is the famous UK author of several books on her favorite art — silk painting. In this DVD she demonstrates 10 of her most called upon techniques for creating fantastic designs in silk. In this excerpt she demonstrates how wax often is preferential to gutta or other resists for it’s ability to contain or hold colors and be used in larger areas while providing similar effects to gutta’s ability to contain dye within regions. Here she emphasizes the ability to work with dyes immediately after application and demonstrates how fun it is to use traditional Indonesian tjantings and Japanese brushes to create “Pisces” or the “twin fish” design in the scarf she is working on.

Birds and Flowers: An Album of Japanese Silk Paintings 2011 Mini Wall Calendar

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The twelve delicately detailed images in this compact wall calendar are from an album of paintings on silk made by an unknown artist during Japan’s Edo period (1615-1868). Each is a tiny world unto itself, a meditative, serenely executed study of a flowering plant or of a solitary bird enjoying a seasonal bloom or branch. The quiet beauty of these subtle, graceful images will lend a sense of peace and harmony to each month of the year.

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Sue Bleiweiss demonstrates her favorite method for painting silk. Note: I know that the volume is a bit low on this video and I hope to correct that by using a portable mike when I shoot the next video.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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SEATED GEISHA


Image by Okinawa Soba (On the Road for a While)
While the Geisha are usually thought of as more ornate and colorful than the prostitutes across town, such was not always the case. Here we have a plain and simple Geisha.

This 1870s-80s image shows fine close detail of the kimono weave. If you line up all of the GEISHA photos from the 1860s to the 1930s you will see their HAIR get bigger and BIGGER with FANCIER tuck, tie, and flair; the collar of their Kimono behind the neck gradually drops down further and further, and their Kimonos become more and more ORNATE, with more unusually patterned OBI. Anyway, I liked this shot from the days when things were more simple….a far cry from the comparatively EXAGGERATED styles of today’s Geisha.

On the other hand, today’s "Decorative" Geisha are just the thing for color photography, especially with that train-load of paint they dip themselves in, the top-heavy wigs, and (without a doubt) those Technicolor wonders of beautiful silk Kimonos.

And there you have it — in the good old days, the Geisha were relatively simple and functional. TODAY, they are walking works of art — more decorative and anachronistic than a truly functioning part of society like they really were back in the Meiji-Taisho eras of these old Photos.

Poem Accompanying an Overrobe (Uchikake) with Bamboo by Rai San’yo


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Poem Accompanying an Overrobe (Uchikake) with Bamboo by Rai San’yo
Japan, Edo period, dated 1824

This poem was inspired by an overrobe. Painted by the renowned Nanga artist Gion Nankai, the garment was treasured for generations by the Karakane family. In 1824, on the occasion of the marriage of a young Karakane woman and the inclusion of the overrobe in her dowry, the prominent poet and Confucian scholar Rai San’yo was commissioned to compose a poem about the garment. This Kanshi (a poem written entirely in Chinese characters) is the result.

Multiple interpretations of San’yo’s poem have been suggested: a conservative reading focuses on Nankai’s calligraphic painting of the garment, while another refers to more overtly sensual content. At one point, in an abrupt departure from the narrative, the poet addresses the reader (and Nankai), warning of the dangers of excess by mentioning the disgraced Chinese official Yang Shen, who was exiled on account of his hedonistic lifestyle.

In his postscript to the poem, San’yo writes that he agreed to compose the poem because Nankai haf agreed to paint the overrobe. Perhaps San’yo fely the need to justify his involvement in a project devoted to a woman’s garment by couching it in terms of his relationship to his Nanga forebear.

Long sleeves of twilled silk from Wu, as white as snow.
Upon them painted bamboo thrusts as if alive.
Madam [Shimo]mara, from the north hall of the Karakane family.
In her wedding trousseau, precious without compare.
Carefully wrapped up at the bottom of a chest, no one dares to wear it.
Her grandmother’s thing, handed down by her mother.
Who could have paint such beautiful bamboo.
The record states by Gion known as Yoichi.
Ah, Nankai, was itf he or not?
For the one in the ladies chamber, he painted the skirt of a robe.
At the time, old man Karakane was a dilettante.
On famous gardens, he composed splendid poems.
Once he persuaded the master [Nankai] to stay at his mansion.
The whole household rejoiced, waited upon him, and surrounded him like a human screen.
At times, with wine at his side, he dipped into the ink.
Droplets make Xiang rain from the movements of his hand.
[The brush,] like rising hare and swooping falcon, without care for where it might land.
Cloths and socks of the same fabric, the brush abruptly flew.
The fair ones stretched out silk in substitution of a silk canvas.
Facing straight at the skirts, here thin here plump, contesting.
Sir, do you not know that the formerly Yang Shen was exiled to Dian [Yunnan] and Shu [Sichuan]?
On the pretty girl’s robe always remains the scent of wine and ink.
Men say, "Enough to wear down a man’s spirit."
But, what the famous did was unfathomable.
The lady still knows how to respect old excellence.
What her family instructions urged was unlike present fashions.
Nowadays, the eyes of rich young men in silk trousers are callow.
She is willing to believe that ink traces are superior to fine silk garments.
I make a song to sing of this affair.
What coils in the bosom is ten-thousand-foot bamboo.
—-Rai Sanyo