{"id":737,"date":"2021-03-30T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=737"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:37:01","slug":"poetic-brushwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/poetic-brushwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetic Brushwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This might be the last painting for a little while. I have some sewing to do, but I wanted to get to this portrait before I took a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a copy of a portrait of Hitomaro<\/a>, one of the most famous and revered poets of Japanese history. He is so revered, that he was eventually made a Kami<\/em> (divinity) of poetry. Essentially, he is a Patron Saint of poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above version was colored to match the original portrait I was imitating, which we saw in the Kyoto National Museum when we went to see the exhibition of panels from the Satake family version of the “36 Immortal Poets” scroll. I did a second copy of this image, but I colored his robe red for Aethelmearc and changed the “medallions” on the fabric to escarbuncles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have a third copy of the image that I did on larger calligraphy paper that I am attempting to mount as a kakejiku<\/em> hanging scroll. Apparently it is the practice to hang a portrait of Hitomaro to oversee your poetic endeavors, so I wanted to have one of those handy for future use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This might be the last painting for a little while. I have some sewing to do, but I wanted to get to this portrait before I took a break. This is a copy of a portrait of Hitomaro, one of the most famous and revered poets of Japanese history. He is so revered, that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,417,419,3,5],"tags":[447,8,218,446,448,168,422],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illumination","category-japanese","category-painting","category-painting-japanese","category-projects","category-sca","tag-hitomaro","tag-japanese","tag-painting","tag-poetry","tag-portraits","tag-scrolls","tag-sumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}