We appreciate the ever cool ways of Fukurokuju, the Japanese Lucky God of Wisdom and Longevity.
Here, below, we see him pictured at LACMA, entertaining for TAR with his fellow Lucky Gods. Yes, it's Fukurokuju pretending to be Jimi Hendrix. Writing with his head bound fox hair axe the characters of "Scuse me while I kiss the sky".
The other six all laugh and cheer, and then the Seven as One chorus "Oooooooooooooooooooh, there ain't no light nowhere! (It's a favourite old party trick of theirs.)
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
Fukurokuju Writing with His Head
Series: Sketches by Yoshitoshi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japan, 1839-1892)
Japan, 1882, May
Prints: woodcutsColor woodblock prin
Image: 6 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (16.8 x 23.7 cm)
Paper: 7 1/8 x 9 3/8 in. (18.0 x 23.7 cm)
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) - Herbert R. Cole Collection (M.84.31.352)
Japanese Art
Fukurokuju is always available to the projects of his friends and students. Here, today, with the flaming pearl of wisdom in one hand and his staff and scroll-of-lives in the other, he holds steady as one of his students paints the sign of our present regard on the sky-kissed ediface of that noble being.
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA