#shihua

(520): Anywho, an ostrich attacked me today. Fucking useless pieces of shit birds.

When Shihua was a Masked Fool, her mask resembled a bian lian from Chinese operas. The mask is a combination of both Dan (旦: woman) and Jing (净: painted face). The colors are red, yellow and green.

Kenju (Unreleased game) - Shihua Playthrough (Normal)

Kenju (Unreleased game) - Shihua Playthrough (Story)

"The shape-and-composition CBIR thesaurus emphasizes discrimination among object types to improve retrieval of relevant images. It adopts not only basic shapes (such as circles, rectangles, and triangles) but also combinations of lines (straight, arc, and wavy) and shapes. Special shapes are developed for those object types that are either unique to Chinese art and culture (such as linglong-shaped rocks, bamboos, and dragon boats), or are a peculiar shape that cannot easily be abstracted into basic shapes (such as birds and clouds)."

Yu Ming was a close friend of Wu Changshi and worked in Shanghai, primarily as a figure painter. "Inscribed simply with the title Travel on the Silk Road, this fan has elements of the story of Lady Wenji (A.D. 2nd–3rd century, as related in the cycle of poems The Eighteen Sons of the Nomad flute). Lady Wenji, the daughter of a Han statesman was abducted and made the wife of a tribal prince of the nomadic Xiongnu. She bore him children and became accustomed to her home on the bleak steppes of Inner Mongolia, far from her people and the civilized Chinese world. When she was finally ransomed she made the agonizing decision to return to her kin and her homeland. The tragic story is frequently retold in poetry and paintings. Ren Yi painted the subject several times, choosing the elements seen in this painting: a camel, the beast of the northern steppes, a vast snowy landscape, and a woman looking out from within a tent."

"Handscrolls are typically between nine and fourteen inches in height but may vary greatly in length;  one of the longer paintings discussed in this unit is almost 29 feet long.  Like the hanging scroll, the handscroll is lightweight and portable.  However, only one portion (usually a shoulders' width) is viewed at a time.  Thus, the experience of looking at this type of painting is very different from that of the hanging scroll or wall painting.  Because of this feature, the artist can take advantage of the visual pacing of the painted elements to encourage the viewer to look more quickly in some some sections or to linger over details in others."