Everyone likes a good play on words right? Well, you’d be surprised to know that the Japanese woodblock artists of the Edo period also felt the same! Filled with several landscape scenes, the series Flowers of Edo – Edo no Hana Meisho-e is full of text on each print that has a double meaning, one …
Once upon a time, a Japanese lord sought shelter from a heavy downpour in Japan. He sat under a tree and thought to himself, “Oh thank god. I can lay low under the tree until the rain stops”. But mere minutes later, he saw a cat waving its paw at him in the distance. Intrigued …
I love that a museum can still feel like home wherever you are in the world! Yes, that’s right my friends! If you’re an art enthusiast, heading out to a museum to admire the great works of art this world’s blessed with is the following way to awaken your inner artist. But even more so, …
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