#sashimono

[lebn]

How Japan mastered building without nails or screws.

[welele]

El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 (@Arteymas_) on X

El sashimono es una técnica para ensamblar muebles y otros elementos de madera sin clavos, utilizando uniones de madera tanto simples como muy complejas.

El sashimono es una técnica para ensamblar muebles y otros elementos de madera sin clavos, utilizando uniones de madera tanto simples como muy complejas. pic.twitter.com/vg2JGdDqRV

— El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 (@Arteymas_) April 2, 2024

[odaclan]

Money flags

While a lot of drama and anime still depict Nobunaga using the Oda mokkou-mon (the flower-like one) on his flags, there are also many who have switched to using what is considered the historically accurate design: the Eiraku Tsuuhou 永楽通宝 (the coins of Emperor Yongle of Ming)

It’s, to be fair, not unique to Nobunaga. A study of other samurai banners show that there are other clan lords who display the same coins on their banners.

Still, what’s interesting is this: This is actually the currency of Japan in that time. This design of coin was purportedly minted by the Ming empire for foreign usage, and that the people of Ming themselves don’t actually use this. Once it made its way to Japan, it then just becomes the domestic Japanese currency. Bulks of these coins had to be imported from China from time to time. 

Since the worth was counted by the weight of the coin, technically what design or image is on the coin doesn’t matter. However, even when the local Japanese begins to attempt to mint the coins domestically, it still bears the Eiraku Tsuuhou imprint. It’s not until the time of the Tokugawa in 1636 that a new imprint was established: The Kan’ei Tsuuhou 寛永通宝, because it was created in the Kan’ei era (1624-1644).

It’s quite a funny thought thinking that any samurai lord carrying those coin flags in battle were essentially holding the Japanese equivalent of this:

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

I tried the pin 📍 with my preferred pronouns on it and it works like maybe 1% of the time.

So I'm scaling up ⬆ the visual aid for dumbfucks who can't understand that I prefer they/them.

[thekimonogallery]

"This postcard, circa 1905,  shows a Geisha holding a Koi-nobori (Carp Streamer). She is standing in front of a display of what appears to be Sashimono, small banners worn by Japanese medieval soldiers for identification during battle."  Text and image via Blue Ruin 1 of Flickr

[bren-mc-bcu]

L4 Introduction to Visual Communication - Part 2

Third Step

Now began the design process. I had my ideas thanks to my research, so I started to design a few ideas on Photoshop.

As I stated before, I wanted to use the triskelion in my design and as you can see, I have put it as my centre piece, surrounded by red and black outlined circles. There is reasoning to the colour and design. The two circles are from another aspect of the tv show (teen wolf), these two circles are a tattoo on the lead characters arm but are also used to represent him and his pack. The bottom corner is meant to represent an arrow head, linking to the hunters of the tv show and as sashimonos were mostly used in battle then I thought this would be a good idea to use. The colour scheme is chosen as it is two colours which are used massively in Japanese art especially red as that represents the sun on the japan flag. Which is what I was trying to emulate with the two circles; trying to go for in-yo vibe. Now that I was happy with my design; the hard part came along.

Fourth Step

We began by buying the piece of fabric; I say that as it was small, but we had about 2.5 metres of fabric to play with. Once all three of us in my group had our designs ready, we started to measure up the fabric and draw on three templates for each design. We somewhat had intentions to make a Collab piece but weren’t too sure if we were going to have enough fabric. Luckily enough after cutting out all three, we had plenty to spare.

After we had all the fabric cut out, we then went back to the shop and bought all necessary paints and brushes. After that we went to my flat and got started on the designing our sashimonos. Back at the flat we took it in turns to paint our own banner as there was limited space, this gave time to revise my design and change a few things about it. Once the others were done, I started to stencil/free hand my design on to a piece of card as I wanted to make sure it looked as neat as possible and being not too confident in my painting skills.

I had my design drew out and I was really impressed. I decided to make the triskelion bigger and have it overlap the red circle, so the triskelion stood out more. Now that this process was completed it was time to cut out the card and turn them into stencils.

I laid the stencil over the fabric and started to simply paint over it. Not taking me long at all. Once the stencil was taken off it was a bit uneven, so I had to go over it again free handed with the smallest brush I had. Just to make sure it was perfect.

At this point I had painted the black and red circle and it was time to paint the triskelion. With the triskelion stencil already cut, I delved in and use a medium brush to stroke in the black paint. Again, with all three things I painted (Black and red circle and triskelion), they were uneven once I took off the stencils so therefore I had cleaned them all up.

2/3 completed and I was getting tired, but I didn’t want to stop and carry it over the next day, I wanted to complete this on the same night. 1am rolled over and I was ready to finish it off. However though, throughout the painting I was swayed off the idea of having the red arrow in the bottom corner. I started to like the symmetrical style of my banner.

Therefore, I had an idea to add a thick black strip to the top and bottom, linking to the outer black circle and thinner red strip inwards to the black strip and linking to the inner red circle. This also kept the colours flowing in a pattern style, going black, red, black, red, black, red, black. Whichever way you looked at it! Almost done, I decided to pin it up and see it from afar.

I was over the moon, massively impressed on how it came out, I had to cover a few blemishes on the way and using masking tape was a massive success to get the clean lines. At this point I felt like I finished but one last thing needed adding. The hope kanji.

And we were finally finished! I used another stencil again for the kanji. I drew it free hand on to the stencil and went from there. So, it still had the whole hand drawn effect, but I wanted to make no errors at this point as otherwise I would have screwed myself over!

Fifth Step

The fifth step was the easiest part, all I had to was add my design onto the Collab piece which was already painted thanks to Kurtis from the group and already featured his and Dan’s design. All I had to do was paint mine on; I just reused the stencils as a template but free handed the most of it as I had to shrink it down in size; it came out looking like this in the end.

All three of our designs looked great together and worked really was a collaborative piece!

Final Step

Now it was time for the final step, which was simply present your work. Our group decided to add holders to each banner to make it look more authentic. Sadly, in the process of putting these on as it was last minute, my banner was showcased upside down as the holders were on the wrong way. Lucky, it is symmetrical! Also, would like to add that this error has been adjusted and my banner is 100% the way it should be.

As you can see from the picture that my banner is upside down as I stated, and you could cross reference it from previous pictures and note that. But it was simply a time and fault issue and has been amended like I said. These are all our banners together and personally I think they look astonishing as a set and we received some really good feedback for the time and effort we put into it. As you can tell we did discuss the use of colours and how we only wanted to stick to white, black and red (most used colours for sashimonos). All are very simple and geometric, and all feature a Kanji. The colour scheme as well going from left to right with three personal banners is appealing as well. This was well thought about and I think very well executed. In conclusion, for this to be my first collaborative piece at university level and to also be generally my first module at university; to come away with a final piece and Collab piece such as that has really impressed others and myself. I came out of this with something which will look great in my portfolio, something which pushed me out of comfort zone and ventured with new methods and overall coming out with a grade I’m proud to have. If you have any further questions about this project, anything at all then just send a question my way or direct message me.

[huyhoangdao]

I share my love with handwriting and woodworking. So hard to decide which is more 😩 . #huyhoangdao #calligraphy #penmanship #handwriting #lettering #typography #flourishing #birdflourishing #copperplate #spencerian #pointedpen #obliqueholder #iampeth #vsco #photography #yusegi #sashimono #japanese #craftsmanship

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