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[spikeramos]

Here's May's batch of Monthly Sketch Requests!

Requests are open, feel free to message me and submit some for a chance of getting your request done!

Commissions are also open, more info coming soon...

[dochuff]

あけましておめでとうございます

Showa Era Oshougatsu

In the background on the short table in the tokonoma is kagamimochi, a traditional Japanese New Year decoration with two rice “cakes” (mochi) and a bitter orange on top. This one also has a skewer of dried persimmons on top of it. The dark object on top of all and in front of the scroll is daikokuten, the god of wealth. The scroll, kakejiku, varied by season. The fan shaped object on the right is not related to New Years, but is a sort of dried mushroom (sarunokoshikake) used as an expensive decoration.

Photo of Ms. R by Mama Sasamoto, taken sometime in the mid 1960s at grandma’s house in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture.

(Scanned from an old print.)

[yaquesitah]

If you ever feel stupid just remember my teacher cried because we didnt clap during an assembly