21 July 2021

see scene


This makuri (unmounted/dis-mounted scroll work) is by the master printer-painter Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764). We cannot see the head the face the eyes the mind of the depicted samurai figure, so to caption the scene 'secretive samurai sees the see' would be speculative and limited.


collection  FIAPCE  
We can note, at least, the rolling white-capped see script and, formally quite different, the angular white-caped cover of the samurai. Co-existing.

Theatre of the Actors of Regard   
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
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