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Showing posts with label Oriental themes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oriental themes. Show all posts
Sunday, 10 February 2013
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Thursday, 7 July 2011
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Friday, 4 February 2011
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Kung Hei Fat Choy 2011
EPSOM scanner image of a ink and wash painting of a rabbit and bird sourced from 'The Sumi-e Book'
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Chinese New Year at the Art Gallery NSW
This Image of the charioteer courtesy of the Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum.
This second image of the terracotta warriors courtesy of the Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum / The third image of the bronze water and wine vessel set courtesy of the Collection of the Hubei Provincial Museum / The last image is a cavalry horse courtesy of the Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum.
All images are sourced from my newsletter from the Art Gallery NSW.
Links: Art Gallery NSW /
Monday, 17 January 2011
Illustrations
Murasaki Shikibu - author of The Tale of Genji
Illustration 1 -
Illustration 2 -
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Sunday, 16 January 2011
Tofu Hyaku-Chin
A woman on the right is fanning the flames in a charcoal brazier to ensure the right temperature for grilling Dengaku a dish made from pieces of skewered tofu garnished with sweet miso sauce. This woodblock print is sourced from the Tofu Hyaku-Chin, 1782, page 8 from the Tofu Cooking, edited by Junko Lampert, 1984.
Hiyayakko
A chilled fresh tofu dish for these hot summer days so longed for in winter.
Photograph courtesy of Toshihiko Nango
Recipe courtesy of Kazunari Yanagihara
Method:
1. Boil tofu for a couple of seconds.
2. Drain on bamboo mat (sudare).
3. Cut both cakes of tofu into 6 - 8 slices.
4. Place said items into serving dish with ice and iced water.
5. Place each selection of garnish into separate serving dishes.
6. Combine soy sauce and lemon juice to make dipping sauce.
7. Serve each person an individual saucer of dipping sauce.
8. Lift each slice of tofu out of the iced water with a slotted spoon.
9. Dip the tofu into the sauce.
10 Choose your garnish of choice.
11. You can experience a variety of flavours by using a different garnish for each slice of tofu.
Footnote: The contents of this recipe have been slightly modified to clarify the meaning.
This photograph is sourced from the Tofu Cooking, edited by Junko Lampert, 1984, page 24.
Photograph courtesy of Toshihiko Nango
Recipe courtesy of Kazunari Yanagihara
Ingredients:
2 cakes of tofu (1 Ib or 450 grams)
Dipping Sauce -
Equal parts of soy sauce (shoyu) and lemon juice
Garnishes -
Grated fresh ginger
Finely shredded green shiso leaves
Bonito flakes
Finely chopped green onions or chives
Finely chopped myoga or celery
1 sheet of nori, held briefly over flame, then crumble
Method:
1. Boil tofu for a couple of seconds.
2. Drain on bamboo mat (sudare).
3. Cut both cakes of tofu into 6 - 8 slices.
4. Place said items into serving dish with ice and iced water.
5. Place each selection of garnish into separate serving dishes.
6. Combine soy sauce and lemon juice to make dipping sauce.
7. Serve each person an individual saucer of dipping sauce.
8. Lift each slice of tofu out of the iced water with a slotted spoon.
9. Dip the tofu into the sauce.
10 Choose your garnish of choice.
11. You can experience a variety of flavours by using a different garnish for each slice of tofu.
Footnote: The contents of this recipe have been slightly modified to clarify the meaning.
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Sharaku
Box Cover
Book Cover - Library of Congress: Catalog No. 68 - 13740, First Edition, 1968
Links: Japanese Prints London /
Keisei Sambon Karakasa
Plate 31 - The actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Nagoya Sanza Motoharu sourced from page 62, Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Sharaku, by Juzo Suzuki.
Plate 32 - The actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Katsuraki sourced from page 63, Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Sharaku, by Juzo Suzuki.
Plate 33 - The actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Fuwa no Banzaemon Shigekatsu sourced from page 63, Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Sharaku, by Juzo Suzuki.
These are a set of three wood-block prints - of a tense scene of confrontation between Nagoya and Fuwa in the presence of the courtesan Katsuraki in the Shimabara gay quarters of Kyoto pertaining to a play about a power struggle within a noble family.
These are a set of three wood-block prints - of a tense scene of confrontation between Nagoya and Fuwa in the presence of the courtesan Katsuraki in the Shimabara gay quarters of Kyoto pertaining to a play about a power struggle within a noble family.
Monday, 3 January 2011
Japanese Children's Favorite Stories
Dust Cover -
Book Cover - Library of Congress: Catalog No. 58 - 11620, Forty-first printing, 1992
Sunday, 2 January 2011
The Flowering Plumtree
Vincent Van Gogh, (1853 - 1890) Japonaiserie: The Flowering Plumtree, (after Hiroshige), page 71, sourced from the Ukiyo-e Prints and the Impressionist Painters: Meeting of the East and the West, 2001
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) The Plum Garden in Kameido from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, page 70, sourced from the Ukiyo-e Prints and the Impressionist Painters: Meeting of the East and the West, 2001
Hiroshige_Van_Gogh_1 - courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Vincent Van Gogh copied Utagawa Hiroshige's woodblock print pertaining to The Plumtree Garden in Kameido whilst enhancing the colours and framing his oil painting with calligraphic characters borrowed from other prints.
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