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MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot)

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Sharing artworks from the Minneapolis Art Institute.'s Japanese and Korean Art department. Not associated with the Minneapolis Art Institute. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 5h

Weather Clearing at Awazu https://collections.artsmia.org/art/67093/

Weather Clearing at Awazu

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 7h

Fragment decorated with butterflies, flowers, and grasses https://collections.artsmia.org/art/131761/

long, rectangular piece of fabric with blue, purple, green, red, and orange pattern on white background; green, blue, and purple grasses; red, orange, and purple flowers; blue and purple butterflies; pattern changes direction at center

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 9h

Iconographic drawings of the forms of Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, 5th month of 1230 https://collections.artsmia.org/art/6921/

images of fierce deities with weapons, flaming halos, grotesque features; text, some in Sanskrit

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 12h

Kiyomizu Temple https://collections.artsmia.org/art/34846/

nishiki-e

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 15h

Picture of Odai Matarokurō Setting His Own Castle on Fire, Calmly Entering the Fiery Pit and Dying; Enemy Troops Were Amazed at His Bravery https://collections.artsmia.org/art/127805/

three separate sheets; man at right with his back to and partially covered by radiating orange flames, with mouth open and hair blowing forward; four men fall on top of each other at center, with flakes around them; other fleeing men in ULQ

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 1d

Raschel Spider Web Shawl https://collections.artsmia.org/art/62971/

warp knit; black and white marled threads knitted into openwork shawl with subtile spiderweb design

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 1d

Tea bowl (chawan) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/104682/

tea bowl; rounded form with rounded bottom; bowl-shaped; moulded design; dark grey with two light grey and brown areas at rim, mainly on exterior

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 1d

Snow at Miyajima Shrine https://collections.artsmia.org/art/76851/

large red torri gate in water; falling snow with snow on pine tree at R and on mountains in background
On back: red seal 参百五拾枚限絶版、第二百四十號 {sanbyakugojū mai kagiri zeppan, dai nihyakuyonjū gō} (edition of 350, no. 240); stamp: MADE IN JAPAN. Second edition, published by Kawaguchi alone in the 1930s.

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 1d

From Gauge (Spread) B https://collections.artsmia.org/art/135956/

grayish organic shape with rounded wide bottom, narrower top, and swoops at R; black, green, and blue shapes echo the shape at L; red and light orange bands at R

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 2d

Wind and Butterfly https://collections.artsmia.org/art/122760/

round, black organic form resembling a sand dollar at C; other black forms with carved lines and geometric motifs scattered, overlapping gray bars and other forms; vertical gray bar from top to bottom; small green form R of C; small teal form bottom C

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 2d

(Farmhouse and trees) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/42406/

(Farmhouse and trees)

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 2d

Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province https://collections.artsmia.org/art/22780/

Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 2d

A Man of Noble Character Views a Waterfall https://collections.artsmia.org/art/116372/

cream colored carton with tan stripes; wooden box with inscription on inside and outside of lid; wrapped in tissue; paper around scroll inside of tie; fabric is yellow; rollers are white porcelain with blue detail; image of a waterfall on the left with text on the right, building LL

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 2d

Chiryu_ https://collections.artsmia.org/art/61051/

Chiryu_

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 3d

Turtles climbing over each other https://collections.artsmia.org/art/122708/

large turtle with three smaller turtles climbing over it, and each other

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 3d

Right: In the Style of an Actor https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8818/

right panel of triptych

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 3d

Bottle with flared mouth https://collections.artsmia.org/art/122610/

jar with rounded body, very narrow neck, and wide, flared mouth; thin incised bands around neck and shoulder; dark brown glaze

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 3d

Blue Iris https://collections.artsmia.org/art/118212/

iris plant with two blue blossoms, and a third blue bud growing along a swirling stream; foliage has mottled appearance; winding stream along LL and bottom edge

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 3d

Signs https://collections.artsmia.org/art/113173/

thick-walled vessel, flaring outward from base to wide shoulder, continuously curving inward toward inner walls; vessel covered overall, inner and outer walls, with small twisted and rolled elements with irregular edges, resembling flower petals; light beige color
Hattori Makiko’s process is meditative. She begins with a sculptural form to which she adds many thousands of tiny, shaved bits of clay to the whole surface in a long, relentless, repetitive process that she says requires a transcendent mindset.

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 4d

Appearing Appalled, Behavior of an Unmarried Woman from Nagoya of the Ansei Era https://collections.artsmia.org/art/127947/

woman leaning toward PL, with her head tilted slightly down, holding up her PR hand; woman wears light blue kimono with busy pattern of pink and white blossoms and scalloped cartouches with multicolored geometric patterns and red undergarment with purple collar with blue, green and tan leaves; green and tan obi
No. 23 on the table of contents

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 4d

Prostitute Walking https://collections.artsmia.org/art/63357/

page from a book

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 4d

Study of a leaping carp https://collections.artsmia.org/art/127978/

jumping fish, in a backwards C shape; sea foliage above and behind tail; broad brushstrokes at bottom; unsigned

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 4d

Landscape https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2540/

Hanging scroll

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 5d

Sakurajima Volcanic Island, Ōsumi Province https://collections.artsmia.org/art/64191/

nishiki-e

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 5d

Long Life https://collections.artsmia.org/art/117383/

several irregular lines of cursive characters; two larger, bold characters at R