asian influenced
because we watched memoirs of a geisha last night, not a bad movie but the book is better), i was inspired to find a picture of a kimono as they are so pretty. i loved this one, it has a flowering plum tree pattern apparently based on a design by the Rimpa artist Ogata Korin (1658-1716).
kimonos were popular in wood block paintings, or ukiyo-e, which means pictures of the floating world. these prints first appeared in the Edo Period (1603-1867). perhaps one of the more famous images is Mount Fuji by Hokusai.
posted by fivespice @ Sunday, April 02, 2006
7 Comments:
very nice, would be a bugger to iron though :-)
how would you know?
ha ha
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Heh, where's our links? ;-)
sorry, hope to get around to this one day. by which time tomas will probably be able to help me do it!
At the rate Kaelan is progressing, I expect htis to be in the next year.
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