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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 · 3h

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 · 18h

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 · 22h

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

(Farmhouse and trees)

MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Chiryu_

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

page from a book

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

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 · 3d

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

Hanging scroll

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

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

nishiki-e

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

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

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

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

Chapter 78 of the Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom https://collections.artsmia.org/art/122069/

sutra written in gold on dark blue paper; cover decorated with floral motif, painted in gold on oxidized silver; frontispiece with painting of preaching Buddha, with Bodhisattvas looking on, mountains in background
This handscroll is a copy of a single chapter of the Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom, or Daihan’nya haramittakyō, a sacred Buddhist scripture that is the opening text of the Buddhist canon, commonly known as the Tripitaka. To create this version, a calligrapher brushed the text by hand in silver paint (a pigment created by mixing crushed silver leaf with animal-fat glue) on paper dyed with indigo. The frontispiece, painted in both silver and gold paints, shows an image of the Buddha surrounded by a host of divinities and devotees below a distinctively shaped mountain known as Vulture Peak, where the Buddha is said to have preached. For its creator (or commissioner), the production of this scroll would have meant the accumulation of merit, or good karma, essential for enjoying a higher status in the next life and, ultimately, escaping the cycle of death and rebirth entirely.

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

Young Warrior and his Attendant https://collections.artsmia.org/art/63460/

Young Warrior and his Attendant

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

Flood: Actor Nakamura Shikan III as Abe Bungo-no-kami https://collections.artsmia.org/art/127866/

man with horse in deluge of water, with pointy waves; man wears garments of purple and bold print with multicolored floral medallions against red ground; man holds bamboo staff in PR hand and blue and white striped cloth, which are horse's reigns, in PL hand; brown horse with red bridle

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

Maid of Ōhara, Pine and Plum Blossoms, Manzai Comedy, one of three panels https://collections.artsmia.org/art/117443/

right panel; two men in light green clothing with triangular black hat with white crisscross at top; man in front peers wide-eyed and somewhat lasciviously over an open white fan with red sun in center that he holds in PR hand

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

Meisen kimono https://collections.artsmia.org/art/117833/

gold colored kimono; bright flowers with teal, red, burgundy, and pink petals; a few blue vertical wavy lines; group of vertical pink and blue stripes

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

Circle https://collections.artsmia.org/art/117012/

large, hoop-shaped basket; with raised mass at center; made of wider, darkly stained bamboo and filled in with lacquer, so it has a muddy appearance; copper tube for water

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

Musashino https://collections.artsmia.org/art/115216/

fields with some small trees with few leaves in foreground; two figures in blue on strip of green in LLQ; Mount Fuji in background

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

Poem 71 - 63 (Life) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/135439/

abstract image; red linear curving shape with texture in center; small yellow circle in URQ; small tear drop shape in red pigment in LLQ; white textured background
Character: 生