Discover Top Posts Tagged with #ishikiri

‘22.12.29 石切神社にて

今日からお正月休み。今年は一応喪中なので年明け前にいつもの石切さんへ。人出はそれなりにありますが、境内も参道も大晦日へ向けて準備中といった感じで、閉まっているお店もちらほらありました。

例によってぷらぷら撮り歩いてみます。

#石切 #ishikiri #東大阪市 #higashi osaka city #日本 #japan #石切神社 #ishikiri tsurugiya shrine #冬 #winter #奈良公園じゃないシリーズ #photographers on tumblr #natgeoyourshot

#Hiking #mountain #japan #walking #countryside #hiking #大阪 #日本 #osaka #pathway #inaka #ハイキング #ishikiri #田舎 #ikoma #石切 #生駒山 #ウォーキング

Sketches of Ishikirimaru and an arrow from Ishikiri Tsurugiya shrine. Pencils were done on-site; watercolours and light pen done from memory/scribbly notes when we got back to our hostel late at night. No photos are permitted of the exhibits, so I asked if I could draw pictures. I didn’t expect much, but to my surprise I was kindly taken around by two miko and given the okay 👌(actual “OK” hand gesture from the kannushi/shinshoku/priest). The security guard watching me crouching around the case said this was the first time he’d ever seen anybody do this 😂 I’m not surprised because there’s no way any good art can come out of being hunched down in a darkened room squinting at a blade vertically mounted in a glass… But for me, the point is not so much about getting an accurate drawing as it is a way of making me really observe - really look closely at the artifact, and have an experience that takes full advantage of being in the room with the real thing.

For example, a few things I noticed that never registered before from the photos/scans I’ve seen: the etched texture on its gold mount at the tang and the gold that fills two of its three rivet holes. Also being able to look at the sword head-on from the business edge of the blade (an angle you will practically never see in photos - but you sure would if you were about to be cut down by it!). It would have been nice to draw all the swords in the exhibit, but I didn’t want to be a nuisance or waste other people’s time. Also this approach would not work with all the swords exhibited - some of them were lit in such a way that they were almost impossible to stare at for long periods of time.

I also sketched an arrow from the main (free) exhibit! (For Touken Ranbu fans - Kogitsunemaru and the Kogarasumaru replica were in that section.) Thanks @atorier and Zanazac for helping me to decipher some of the info on the arrow, though there was very little context about the actual artifact 😂 Most of it was about its construction or how it got misplaced.

A really wonderful experience - I’m so appreciative of the shrine staff and to my friends for making this possible!

[See fully gallery on Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/p/B3nmzSaBZQH/?igshid=jomtlns958fg