#sessei

Meiji Dance Recital, Sessei, 1880, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

In this print, a musical dance performance takes place on temple grounds under flowering cherry trees. At center stage, a dancer goes through her steps to the accompaniment of three musicians, playing flute, drum, and shamisen. At this spring performance, new members of the dancing and musical schools are presented to the public (just as they are in Japan to this day). Inscriptions on the print provide the names of the two young women who are being presented, Ishida Sen and Ishida Tami, perhaps sisters or members of the same establishment.Similar presentation surimono, created to highlight new, promising students, were made from the mid-19th century onward. This is a relatively late example and noteworthy for the use of Western aniline dyes and for the incorporation of Western elements like the gentleman at the bottom right. Charles H. Mitchell Collection unrestricted gift Size: 55.5 x 45.6 cm Medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

oh my god it just keeps getting worse LMAO

食い殺す| |   A hint of respect, but mostly irritation.                           Such mad, very angry.   There was an overwhelming inclination to hurl the other of the set toward the older carnivore, and while it would certainly be satisfying if the tactic actually succeeded this time, he didn’t actually want to have to go and pick both of the tonfa up again, it would be demeaning.             That idle inquiry caused a slender brow to arc, and a thin mouth to become a flat, two-dimensional line of disgust. He made no other movements, but studied the elder Cloud Guardian as a wildcat would size up a panther, ensured of their victory.

                              “No.”