MEDICOM TOY BE@RBRICK Kano Eitoku Karajishi-zu byobu 100% & 400%
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Condition: New
Manufacturer: MEDICOM TOY
"The huge folding screen of Chinese lions painting"
[Body size]
100%: Height approx 70mm/2.8"
400%: Height approx 280mm/12"
[Material] ABS
What is "Karajishi-zu byobu"?
This large-sized pair of folding screens with six panels, titled “Chinese Lions”, are made with ink and gold leaf on paper. It is a painting by Kano Eitoku (1543-1590), a representative painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period.
He drew two shishis (lions) that most people have not seen though there were no zoo in Japan at that time. The patterning on the body suggests that Kano Eitoku used creative inspiration from tigers, which he may have seen in his lifetime.
A shishi, which was regarded as a symbol of power in India or Persia.Then it came through the Silk Road as a sacred beast to Japan. In other words, shishi is imaginary creature, and became unified with koma-inu (guardian dogs) located in shrines, and they have been thought of as guardians.
“Chinese Lions” is currently on display at the Imperial Household Agency and is part of the collections of the Sannomaru Shozokan, or The Museum of the Imperial Collections, in Tokyo, Japan.
Condition: New
Manufacturer: MEDICOM TOY
"The huge folding screen of Chinese lions painting"
[Body size]
100%: Height approx 70mm/2.8"
400%: Height approx 280mm/12"
[Material] ABS
What is "Karajishi-zu byobu"?
This large-sized pair of folding screens with six panels, titled “Chinese Lions”, are made with ink and gold leaf on paper. It is a painting by Kano Eitoku (1543-1590), a representative painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period.
He drew two shishis (lions) that most people have not seen though there were no zoo in Japan at that time. The patterning on the body suggests that Kano Eitoku used creative inspiration from tigers, which he may have seen in his lifetime.
A shishi, which was regarded as a symbol of power in India or Persia.Then it came through the Silk Road as a sacred beast to Japan. In other words, shishi is imaginary creature, and became unified with koma-inu (guardian dogs) located in shrines, and they have been thought of as guardians.
“Chinese Lions” is currently on display at the Imperial Household Agency and is part of the collections of the Sannomaru Shozokan, or The Museum of the Imperial Collections, in Tokyo, Japan.
