#nanban

[chanceisforthelosers]

A little present for a friend :)

[neengareadynaaready]

Tamil Heroes + Mohanlal Compilation

You already know this is gonna have so much Vijay, okay.

Vijay and Vikram ooooooh

Hanging out with a friend after getting stabbed to death to give your son a traumatic backstory

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 669

Nanban

Blooming flowers

Fully prepared

南蛮の

満を持しつつ

咲く花や

Solanaceae.

(2023.05.12)

[alaipayuthey]

happy birthday thalapathy!

[tanuki-kimono]

Ahoy! Sail away on this cool meisen kimono with Western ships upon lively waves.

This pattern called nanban fune (lit. “South barbarian boats”) can be found in numerous old items (like dishes, arts or clothes) and depicts Portuguese or (more often) Dutch trading boats like the ones which moored at Dejima for trade during Edo period. It was considered for long a novelty pattern.

Meisen (=ikat) was all the rage in early 20th century, as were Western inspired motifs (like roses for example). That may explain the return of those Nanban boat pattern chosen for this kimono.

[ryuucafe]

チキン南蛮とサラダ　オフィスランチ

I don’t know why I am such a cheapskate.

Mom is not, dad is not, my brother is definitely not.

Grandma has already retired when I was in middle school, but she was in education so she knew a lot of good teachers. One of her teacher friends was doing a literature prep class for high school entrance exam so she put me in that class as well.

I guess his teaching method was good, as advertised my grandma, but I could not tell because literature at that time in my life was just another obstacle to get to high school. When we were doing a complementary on a classic novel about parenthood, he gave us a question that is along the line of ‘can we ever repay our parents?’.

And the answer, given by one of the classmate and was given an approving nod from the teacher was ‘we repay them by caring for our children’.

I have to tell you, that struck me hard.

Even at that point in life, I knew I do not want children. I see how I was, if I ever had children, they would be miserable, insecure about their look, criticizing their own average drawing, crying over their low grades...

If I’m never going to have children, how am I ever going to repay my parents?

I know my parents my whole life, I know they would never, but I am always unsure. I have to save up, for some rainy day when they call me up and ask me to pay back every penny they ever spent on me.

I have to be prepared.

(man I really need more trust in human)

[softsoundingsea]

2017

Japan Society, in collaboration with Boston, Museum of Fine Arts showcased Nanban art (南蛮美術), literal translation of nanban means ‘southern barbarians’.

This art is from around the sixteenth centuries and is considered the first influence of European art on Japanese art and culture. This was during exchange with the Spanish and Portuguese.

Unfortunately, I forgot to photograph who the artists were for these pieces.

If you’d like to read more about Nanban, please check out JAANUS.

[vennilave]

DUDE DUDE DUDE please make a moodboard for Nanban. love that movie

omg why was this hidden in my inbox

I’d love to make one!! I will keep this in mind even though i have a million incomplete projects