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Medusa by Billelis

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Noh mask of Ko-Omote  Edo period (18th century), Japan, inscribed Yasuhisa (Deme Yusui) and with kao (cursive monogram) in gold lacquer Polychrome pigments and gesso over wood  8½in. (21.6cm.) long  With wood box lacquered with Tokugawa family crests.  Christies 

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gi.h

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A work called “late autumn” from the photo magazine “Koga Monthly” published in 1950. Photographed by Toyoji Shibata. 

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Marc Riboud, Young Girl in a Train, Japan, 1958

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Boys Day with  “koinobori” (traditional carp windsocks).  Early 20th century, Japan.

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1930, Japan. Three new members from the Tokyo Shochiku Drama Club (later Shochiku Opera Company). From left to right: Masayo Shibuya (17 years old), Kimiyo Otsuka (16 years old)

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Phurba (dagger), late 15th century

The ritual dagger (Sanskrit: kila; Tibetan: phurba) is essential to the dispelling of evil and understood as being especially helpful in neutralizing the forces that impede Tantric Buddhist practice. Its origins are ancient, appearing in the Indian Rg Veda as the central blade of the vajra that Indra used to slay the primordial cosmic snake Vritra. Its Sanskrit term, kila, which means peg or stake, was probably linked to Vedic sacrifices. The three-headed Vajrakila Buddha is invoked through meditation on the Vajrakila Tantra, an early Indian text first propagated in Tibet in the eighth century by Padmasambhava, one of the founding masters of Tibetan Buddhism. In this phurba, a half-vajra projects from Vajrakila’s chignon, and a fully elaborated vajra serves as the hilt, below which project boars’ heads. Rock crystal, valued for its purity and ability to transmit light, is a prized material in this context and thus seen as analogous to the Buddha’s dharma and its immutable higher reality. Along with examples in meteoritic iron, rock-crystal phurba are regarded as the most efficacious in the destruction of obstacles to enlightenment.

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Silver-gilt ring

Etruscan, late 6th–early 5th century B.C. (Archaic period)

The bezel, in the form of a cartouche, is decorated with a winged lion, a siren, and a flying scarab beetle.     

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Chagall - Degas - Matisse

Picasso - Van Gogh - Monet 

Delacroix - Manet - Turner 

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Black Cat and Bluebird, by Muramasa Kudo

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Magane-cho red light district, Yokohama, Japan, 1956

Ph.Toyoko Tokiwa

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Enoki Toshiyuki 榎俊幸 (1961 - ).

Enoki Toshiyuki est un artiste japonais contemporain qui travaille dans les techniques de la peinture traditionnelle en laque, ainsi que du pétrole, de l'acrylique, des feuilles de métal et de l'encre sur toile.

Ses sujets varient de la fantaisie et du mythe à une représentation plus directe, mais tous incorporent des éléments de texture riches, et souvent des modèles complexes. Ces éléments, combinés à des relations de valeurs modérées et de valeurs muettes, font que ses sujets semblent sortir des surfaces de texture comme si elles étaient distillées à partir d'un rêve, se transformant progressivement en conscience.

Source : https://www.facebook.com/enokitoshiyuki/?tn-str=k*F

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One of my earliest posts… crazy to think it’s now had over 35,000 reposts and likes. Still one of my favourites too!

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William Strang’s illustrations for Paradise Lost, 1896

Eve in Paradise Lost is vain, vulnerable and evidently intellectually inferior to Adam. However, Sandra M Gilbert argues that, though Milton portrays her as a weak character, he also puts her on a par with Satan in her refusal to accept hierarchy and ability to move the plot of Paradise Lost forward: 

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Sisters, by Shomei Tomatsu

Japan, 1955