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A World Maximilian Lenz

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“Autumn Maples with Poem Slips Date:

c. 1675

Artist: Tosa Mitsuoki

Japanese, 1617-1691

ABOUT THIS ARTWORK

“Japanese aristocrats engaged in the elegant custom of recollecting classical poetry while viewing spring and autumn foliage. In these delicate screens, premier court painter Tosa Mitsuoki meditated on the inevitable passage of beauty by depicting the melancholy hours after the departure of reveling courtiers. A cherry tree bursts into bloom on the right screen (seen here at top), while its mate displays the brilliant red and gold foliage of maples in autumn. Slips of poetry, called tanzaku, waft from the blossoming limbs, the remaining evidence of a human presence. Courtiers (whose names are recorded in a seventeenth-century document) assisted Mitsuoki by inscribing the narrow strips with quotations of appropriate seasonal poetry from twelfth- and thirteenth-century anthologies. The screens were either commissioned by or given to Tofukumon’in (1607–1678), a daughter of the Tokugawa shogun who married the emperor Gomizunoo (1596–1680). In an era otherwise marked by increasing control of the feudal shogunate over imperial prerogatives, this royal couple encouraged a renaissance of courtly taste that nostalgically evoked the past glories of early-medieval aristocratic life.

— Entry, Essential Guide, 2013, p. 110.”

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La Nuit, gold necklace set with opal, plique‑à‑jour enamel and diamonds, attributed to Alphonse Mucha, 1905

Photograph: Sothebys

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Monument to the Uprising of the Residents of Kordun and Banidja Petrovac, Petrova Gora, Croatia

Architect: Vojin Bakić, 1981

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by Arthur Yuan

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Traverse Board, 18th -19th century

Simple traverse boards were used in northern Europe by the 16th century to keep a record of a ship’s movements. They were circular and had a series of holes along lines marking the 32 points of the compass. Pegs were attached to the board by string and placed in the correct hole for the course being steered, normally one hole for each half hour of the watch, as measured by a sand-glass.

At the end of each watch the records were written down, usually by the ship’s master, and the pegs pulled out ready for the next watch.

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Be right back, gonna write a set of naval combat rules with the most realistic course plotting mechanics ever seen. Just need to contract a woodshop for the boxed set components.