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Old Japanese toy paintings

Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 11:30 am

The Ningyo-do Bunko Database is an online collection of over 5000 watercolour paintings by Kawasaki Kyosen (1877-1942) of antique Japanese toys and folk craft items. (Via Pink Tentacle, which naturally enough focuses on octopus-themed works.) Click on kyosen gangucho and gangucho to go to the indexes. Each link in the indexes takes you to a book’s worth of images.

A few pictures from the collection:

japtoy01

japtoy02

octo_toy_5

japtoy03

Also from Pink Tentacle, tangible holograms using focused ultrasonic waves, and translucent CG flowers by illustrator Macoto Murayama. Murayama’s translucent images highlight the geometrical structure in the beauty of flowers.

murayama_1

And while I’m linking, from the BBC, do seals navigate by the stars?

4 Responses to “Old Japanese toy paintings”

  1. Laurie Says:
    August 21st, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Why is it that I look at the tangible hologram article and the first thing I think of is, “sounds like a premise for porn”?

  2. kjbishop Says:
    August 21st, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Hey, who wouldn’t? ;-)

  3. Penny Says:
    August 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 am

    That third one is either terrifying or urinating.

  4. kjbishop Says:
    August 22nd, 2009 at 7:24 am

    Or both?