A two-panel Nihonga school screen from Japan. Taisho/Showa period featuring the somewhat unusual subject matter of Indian women:
Large two panel screen, ink, colors, and gold on paper; depicting two women wearing richly patterned costumes and elaborate jewelry partially rendered in gold moriage, the seated right figure smoking a hookah while the other reclines on the floral carpet near an earthenware pot and three pineapples, a pair of butterflies flitting through the air above
Alma Lavenson: Boy painting a Confucian temple, Taipei, 1965
Kyoto, Japan, New-Year day - 1960
Source : National Geographic
I guess I went a little crazy, huh?
No, you’ve always been crazy. This is just the first chance you’ve ever had to really express yourself.
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Devas and Apsaras, Angkor, November 2016
Woven textiles from a French album (circa 1878).
Images and text courtesy The Met.
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Excerpts from a Yokohama dialect Japanese phrasebook in the 1800s
Bishop of Homoco
Yokohama, 1879
Tammy Rae Carland, Cell 69, 1994