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song birds

like butterflies

flitting across silk floss blossoms

~ Meeta Ahluwalia

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Cut Off Line

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Incredible art from the Northern Wei Dynasty, Mogao Caves, 4th century

My brief experience seeing Wei Dynasty art in North China taught me it's some of the most refined in Chinese history

[Photo/Chinaculture.org]

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Butterfly Minds Not by Rosemarie Bloom

EPUB -> https://ko-fi.com/s/5c28f642af

#@sakura-zen #poetry #zen poetry #poets on tumblr #poetic #poem #poetry book #poetry community #writers and poets

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Sleek pastels for this antique outfit, pairing chic fuji (wisteria) black obi, with a romantic sandwaves-patterned kimono (probably depicting a karesansui Japanese "zen" garden)

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It's a groove. The geisha, who bent over and played the koto, looked like a keyboardist. And the zatoh(blinded monk), who swivels his head around and plays the shamisen with great gusto, is probably a guitarist and vocalist. The image above is Toyokuni Utagawa's "Koto Shamisen Tsure-biki (Playing the Koto Shamisen together)" (19th century). I think I saw the soul of the Japanese people here.

ノリッノリですね。体をかしげて琴を爪弾く芸者はまるでキーボーダーみたい。そして首を振り回し豪快に三味を演奏する座頭は、ギター兼ボーカルという所でしょうか。画像は歌川豊国の「琴三味線連れ弾き」（１９世紀）。日本人のSoulというものをここに見た気がします。

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Aya Takano: The Way to Revolution (2008)

#aya takano #art #japanese illustration

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What a cool sense of perspective. It's always a pleasant surprise when the 3-D pops up in a predominantly flat medium!

From "The Moon and a Hundred Figures" by Hounen Tsukioka "Moon over the red light district" 1886

月岡芳年『月百姿　郭の月』1886年

#woodblock prints #ukiyo e #hounen tsukioka

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Utagawa Hiroshige, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

#utagawa hiroshige #ukiyo e

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I think it was put 10 million years ago just for cats

(Source)

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Nakameguro - Tokyo, Japan

#photographer: inefekt69 #photography #inefekt69 #Japan

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Badass!

Matt Frank's (aka KaijuSamurai) ukiyo-e-style cover for Godzilla: Rulers of the Earth Volume 5, featuring King Caesar!

#matt frank #godzilla #ukiyo-e

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グラフィックデザイナー　土方重巳の世界　Graphic designer : Hijikata Shigemi

#hijikata shigemi #graphic design

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Absolutely beautiful use of color

TSUCHIYA KOITSU | SPRING SNOW, KYOTO MARUYAMA

Woodblock print, designed 1936 [via]

#tsuchiya koitsu #woodblock prints #new ukiyo-e

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Kumoi Cherry Trees

Hiroshi Yoshida

color woodblock print, 1926

#beautiful! #hiroshi yoshida #woodblock prints #new ukiyo e

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How cool is this! I love to see this type of creativity - a modern sort of ukiyo-e.

If you're an indie artist who works with this style and would like to collaborate with IKB, hit me up! I'd love to feature your art in some way :D

Umi Zatō

2013

Matthew Meyer

#inkbrushmood #ikb vol. 2 #ikb vol. 2 coming soon #new ukiyo e #contemporary ukiyo e aesthetic #japanese art #ukiyo-e #graphic design #art #umi zato #matthew meyer

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藤（前回使わなかったやつ）

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