6 posts tagged “river”
Japan started going downhill in 1858 with Hikone's very own, Ii Naosuke signing away these once emerald isles, to Townsend Harris, representing that era's rising power on the other side of the Pacific. Japan's isolation would end sooner or later. When it did it, it lost much of its aesthetic. Japan's surrender to the Allies, on the USS Missouri , in Tokyo Bay, on 2 September 1945, accelerated the country's aesthetic downfall. Japan has used its genius to enrich itself and KO's gut says its industry generally is much broader and more formidable than Amerika's*. But the cost has led to aspartame-flavored, MSG-enhanced, nuclear-powered, Mickey Mouse-worshiping, television-addicted convenience store collective consciousness. Almost every river is dammed to keep the construction state alive; there are plans for even more destructive dams. Up and down this country are omnipresent and relatively lifeless cedar plantations. Most residences are fluorescent-lit and irori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irori are only a memory. Ninety people on average kill themselves daily. Kyoto really does hate Kyoto and Japan really does hate itself judging from the trashed environment. To say there is a sovereign Japan is like saying Amerika is independent. Both are spiritually-devoid NWO colonies on the fast track to microchipped populations. The real pandemic is thanatos which is why we hate plant food.
1858 and 1945. On the whole these importance dates have been disastrous for Japan.
Japan could be much better off now if it uses its genius to help build a sane world.
*One reason why the yen is strong vis a vis the US peso, inspite of Japan's latest horrific GDP numbers.
Okinawa Soba writes:
Sorry for the short title of this photo....it used to be three times longer before I edited it down !
The Kimono can be better appreciated at the ALL SIZES button.
SEE COMMENTS # 2, #3, and #4 below.
Flickr member Noel43 tells us in one of the comments below, ".....Her name is Michiko. She was born in 1916 as a daughter of Geisha and became Maiko at age of 13. In chapter VII [of Liza Dalby's book GEISHA] there is short bio of Michiko and her two friends. It seems they were quite popular at the time and were even called 'great trio of Pontocho'........"
Here you can see TWO MORE Maiko images taken from one of these same Kamo River verandas, though not the exact spot as above. They are in the SHOW ME THE OBI ! set :
www.flickr.com/search/?w=24443965@N08&q=Photo+Spot+Ka...
TO ALL MAIKO AND KIMONO EXPERTS HERE ON FLICKr !!!!
PLEASE TELL THOSE OF US WHO DO NOT KNOW (Like me, Okinawa Soba), EXACTLY HOW AND WHY THIS RATHER MATURE-LOOKING GIRL IS A MAIKO (IF SHE IS), AND HOW WE CAN KNOW JUST BY LOOKING THAT THIS IS A MAIKO'S KIMONO, and NOT THAT OF A GEISHA OR OTHER MATURE WOMAN.
Thanks in advance for your comments on this, because no matter how many times she is being called a MAIKO here, her over-all "look" seems way more "mature".
IMMORTAL GEISHA --- WHERE ARE YOU !!!?
Although identified as a Maiko (and from the neck up, her ornamentation seems like a Maiko), from the neck down, her particular sleek dress and demeanor come across as nothing like the usual as-yet-still-a-child Maiko images on my photostream. Rather, she comes across as a very mature young lady, already into her Geisha years !
To my eyes, this is the most captivating match of a kimono to a body that I've ever seen --- how a woman and her kimono were meant compliment each other.
When worn correctly, the perfectly designed Kimono is more stunning than any Western "Evening Gown" could ever be.
Hollywood movie stars on the red carpet at the Oscars are boring compare to this !
KIMONO NOTE : It continues to be a point of great frustration over the years to look at literally thousands of the most beautiful and exquisite Kimono patterns and designs in all of the old photographs --- while knowing next to nothing about the great artists and embroiderers who transformed the white bolts of silk in to some of the most expensive textile creations in the world.
Okinawa_Soba has about 130 original ISE KATAGAMI kimono stencils from the EDO and MEIJI eras. Cut with fantastic precision into specially prepared sheets of "Mulberry Paper", they are themselves a wonder to behold. Occasionally they are found "signed" with the makers stamp [han], yet none of mine are, the artists seeing them only as an interim means to an end.
int.kateigaho.com/spr05/katagami.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katazome
A Collection of about 50 examples (not mine) ise-katagami-ma.blogspot.com/
*******************************************From an original 1920s-30s gelatin silver print. Photographer unknown.
According to the comments below, we should be able to date this almost to the exact year. One of us here will get to that soon enough, I'm sure !
By the way, the river flowing behind her is described here : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamo_River
Okinawa Soba writes:
From a Sample Set of Classic Meiji and Taisho-era Japan Stereoview and Lantern-Slide images by Japanese Photographer T. ENAMI (1859-1929). See www.t-enami.org
Here is a variant stereoview proof print taken during the session from whence the above image came : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2504132479/in/set-7215...
Okinawa Soba writes:
Ca.1898 Hand-tinted glass lantern-slide by T. Enami, Japan's Meiji-era Master of the small format image. www.t-enami.org
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A river trip on the pan-handle of the Okavango Delta. Difficult to hand hold on a moving boat !!
Jobs are disappearing everywhere. Fortune 500 companies sell into powerful rallies like Friday and Monday to pay off debts. Profits are vanishing generally. Central banks are monetizing huge amounts of new debt with interest added, without consulting the peasants who will pay. There are no fundamentals backing a sustained rally. The secret's out: there is no money. The Dow is heading for another precipice: fasten your seatbelts.
The political and business world are a monolith. Exhibit one is that all markets outside of NY are monkeys seeing and doing what Wall Street does. When New York collapses again the rest of the world will too.
Don't forget to look up at the sky sometimes in this deliberately engineered turmoil. Venus, and Jupiter float divinely in the twilight sky. They form a triangle with Her Majesty Luna on 1st December. There is life after fluorescent-lit, aspartame-coated, mercury-laced consumerism.
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Victoria Falls, October 2008
Nikon D80 - Tamron 17-50 @ 30mm - 1/25 - f/32 - ISO 100 much better large.
Starting in 2002, the British Columbia government started privatizing the province's rivers to hydroelectric corporations. It plans to lease more than 500 rivers. British Columbia's turning Japanese.
