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Friday, December 4, 2009

Season of the mellowness in the Far East Ⅱ




   These colored leaves are the entirely same as it to watch in a temple of Kyoto.





   The ancient noble and priest looked at this same color, too.
   And they created literature and pictures, etc.






   The painters like Sesshū Tōyō drew the Ink and wash painting and the Yamato-e (Japanese traditional painting).

   As transcended a lot of times, these colors have charmed people.

" Mountain " Japanese calligraphy




  
    "" (san, or yama). It is translated as a mountain, hill, peak, etc.
    This character is written by Kanzi, Semi-cursive script.


    In the Oracle Bone Script, they were represented by triangles rather than vertical strokes.


    Please look at other form Regular script of the this calligraphy, click here.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The painted space in the Far East Ⅰ




   Now, colored leaves have greeting time of the full ripeness.







   The colored leaves have been used as a subject of the haiku and the waka in the Far East poem.
   They are symbols to show the maturity of the life.








   The autumn colored leaves feel that they are effective in healing a heart.

The painted space in the Far East Ⅱ




There is this place in the mountains, and the colors are more brighter in the difference of the heat and cold being large.





The heap of the colors seems to form another world there.



Colors flow like a waterfall. These almost trees are Maple.


Here is Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture.

"Leaves" Japanese calligraphy






"" (yō, or ha). It is translated as a leaf, etc.
This character is written by Kanzi, Regular script.

Phono-semantic compound
 semantic 艸 (grass)  +  phonetic 枼