Saturday

Let us build a snowman...


Meiji-era
Ca.1908-12 hand-coloured collotype print


Ca.1900-10 late Meiji-era photograph by an unknown
Japanese photographer of the the Geisha Eiryu
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The Geisha Eiryu and the snowman
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Utagawa Hirokage:
Comic Incidents at Famous Places in Edo , No. 22,
dog stealing a workman's meal from a snow Daruma
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Konobu IV: 'Children and a Snowman', ca. 1970
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Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)
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5 comments:

Mira said...

Let us make a snowflake! :)

http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/index.html

Amy June Bates said...

Yuki Daruma! I love it.
It feels cold enough for snow tonight...

Aputsiaq said...

Hej Mira! Åh, ja, jeg bloggede de her snefnug sidste år...de er bare skønne! TAK!!!

Hi Amy! Yeees, Yuki Daruma! I thought about writing the Japanese name...then I thought: Mette, you misspell it for sure...and then you'll look so silly ;O)...but you're right! I wish I knew the Japanese signs for these 'snow dolls'...then I could find some more images! They are adorable!

Amy June Bates said...

雪達磨
are the characters. I live in Japan right now. Daruma is so funny. These are great pics
amy

Aputsiaq said...

THANKS Amy!!! I'l try to google...and look at som more Yuki Daruma! It must be so wonderful to live in another country for a while...to get to know a new culture!!