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Dear Customers & Freinds;
Hello from Japan! This is Antique Ichiroya News Letter.No.92nd.
I finally could go to Kyoto National Museum to see Kyosai Kawanabe exhibition before it was ended on Sunday.
I wrote about him on the former newsletters 88th,but seeing his mater pieces,I really have to talk about him again and related subjects on this issue today.
Kyosai Kawanabe is a great artist in Edo to Meiji and now, he is my favorite artist(he is the BEST!).
Just in case if you don't know about him,here is a link to get to know Kyosai.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanabe_Ky%C5%8Dsai
At the exhibition,there are TOO many incredible pieces and there are 2 pictures which I could not keep my eye off for a while.
They are Yurei,ghost.(Kayo-san visited this exhibition and she totally agrees,too!).
Like their Western counterparts,yurei are thought to be spirits kept from a peaceful afterlife and appear in front of people who are closely bound up together.In my opinion,Japanese Yurei is the most scary comparing to any other yurei on other countries.Western yurei is usually blueish,but ours are white and they are scary emtionally having deep-seated grudge,but western seems more aggresive and violent.
Our typical Yurei(usually beautiful momen) is in burial clothes,have kind of white triangular bandage on the forhead and always have not legs.
Here below is a link of wonderful YureiIhttp://zarigani.web.infoseek.co.jp/hp4.htm
Many great artist chose yurei as subjects and they indispensable to Japnese life and arts.In my whole life,first of all, I have never seen ghost(thanks god!),and I have never seen any paintings with ghost,or even any clothes with ghose,but we display hanging scroll,wear Haori
with ghose motif.I believe that having these,they are holding a memorial service for a departed soul of one whom you love or on the contrary, it is said that having thoes can keep evil spirits away.Either ways,I really think our culture is really interesting.
Kyosai was too unique and eccentric to be accepted by Japanese during this era,so most of pieces are in abroad now,so you might be able to see them in your countries,if you can,please visit and get goosebumps just like I did becaue it is worth going!
Tomorrow,we will list interesting relgious items,and charming kimonos,so please browse our both sites!
Thank you for taking your valuable time to read my 92nd newsletters and we will get back to you soon!
Have a wonderful day!
Hisami Sato
Japanese antique Ichiroya
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