Tuesday, July 3, 2012

I am finally going thru my DC pictures.

Four " Guardian of the West " figures
at the Smithsonian's Freer | Sackler
Museums of Asian Art
Japan
Kamakura period

I has always enjoyed Japanese carvings
especially netsuke and inros and I loved
these figures

"A thicket of summer grass
Is all that remains
Of the dreams of ancient warriors."

Basho









"As if to say the land will prosper
With its Otomos-the mighty clan
Of warriors bearing quivers---
The bright moon shines."

 from
1000 Poems from the Manyoshu

6 comments:

Kathie Brown said...

These are quite amazing AND terrifying!

Guy said...

Hi Kathie

They certainly looked very menacing, there was a lot of demon thrashing going on.

Giuy

kerrdelune said...

I loved this post, and the images are absolutely wonderful!

Guy said...

Hi Cate

Thanks for stopping by.

Regards
Guy

Wanda said...

They remind me of much of the art work that I saw in Bhutan--it must be the Buddhist influence!

Very nice photos, BTW.

Guy said...

Hi Wanda

I think art in that area was fairly universal I think a lot of influences moved around pretty freely.

Thanks for your comments.
Guy