The magnifying lens rests atop a coiled dragon, its silver body etched with swirling waves and curling tendrils. This jewel-like object transforms myth into weight—what shifts when you imagine it held, not displayed?

#JapaneseArt #Okimono #ClevelandMuseumofArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.682

“GREAT ANT-EATER
MYRMECOPHAGA JUBATA*, LINN. PANGOLIN, OR SCALY ANT-EATER. MANIS CRASSICAUDATA, LINN.”
From Dobutsuzu (Chart of Animals), Japan, 1875-7
National Diet Library of Japan:
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/12899970/1/4?page=right
#JapaneseArt #SciArt
*now M. tridactyla
'Tamamo no Mae Transforming into a Fox' - Utagawa Sadakage. #PhantomsFriday #yokai #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

The tiger’s striped pelt dissolves into loose, wet ink strokes where fur meets wind. This imagined collaboration—poet-monk’s verse beside the artist’s brush—suggests a dialogue between sound and silence.

How does the uneven paper texture shape the tiger’s stillness?

#JapaneseArt #EdoPeriod #ClevelandMuseumofArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.232

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For both #WorldFrogDay + #WorldSparrowDay today:
Cloisonne Enamel Plate (with #Sparrows & #Frogs )
Japan, late Meiji Era (late 19th - early 20th c).
Dia. 12 in.
https://mta-sts.antiquearena.com/lot/67840?auction_item_id=298
#JapaneseArt #BirdsInArt #FrogFriday
Today is both #WorldFrogDay and #WorldSparrowDay so here is Swallow and Frog at a Party by Teisai Hokuba (Japan, 1771–1844), woodblock print (sumizuri-e), ink on paper, 18 x 21.3 cm (7 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/533328
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