OK, no joke. These are what I found at the Tomioka Hachiman shrine sale today! Amidst all the lovely usual things – the textiles, the porcelains, the vintage tools and the general junk – I got these three framed fern botanicals.
They aren’t particularly valuable, but they are extremely decoratively pleasing. Add them to the herbiers and the katagami stencils and I could open a garden shop!
This story is only humorous if you have read these two recent previous posts:
Botanicals…Eternal History and Science in Art and Decor
An Unexpected Find…Japanese Herbiers
Gorgeous fern botanicals! Why don’t I make finds like that when I hit the shrine sales? I’ll have to try harder. I have a whole bunch of those katagami myself (bought in a whole-lot purchase), but there were no related ones as esthetically pleasing as your ferns. Urayamashiiii ! Becky
Serendipitous!!
And I love them! Well done!
Those are amazing! The greens are still so vivid. I was looking at those black katagami that you posted the other day. They seem to be cut from ordinary black paper and not kakishibugami (the waterproof paper treated with persimmon tannin used for katagami). I think they might either be kiri-e which is a Japanese papercut or they could have been used to make the design on a silkscreen. The black cutout is placed over a silkscreen that has been covered in photosensitive emulsion. The screen is then be exposed to light. The emulsion on the exposed areas of the screen fuse to the screen while the unexposed areas remain water soluble and are then washed off. I wanted to comment on this before but I spilled tea on my keyboard:(!
I’ve just discovered your blog and have been having fun reading past posts. So interesting, I especially enjoy reading about your beach house, as I’ve been renovating a tiny older Chesapeake Bay cottage for the past year.
Congratulations on the lovely botanicals – what a lucky find!
Brilliant! Talk about putting it out to the universe!
Of course you would! 🙂
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