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This intense looking Rakan, or enlightened one, is one of 500 statues housed at the Gohyaku Rakanji in Meguro, Tokyo. 🔻 Zen Buddhism has been a powerful and enduring force in Japanese art for centuries. Find out more about Zen art in today’s post, link in bio!
Issei Suda captures portraits from the street, including this dynamic shot of three young friends in all their finery. 🔻 It’s a wonderful photograph, perhaps all the more interesting as you can fill in the colors of their kimonos with your own imagination!
The geometrical perfection of traditional Japanese architecture is highlighted here in this image of an old Shoin by Yasuhiro Ishimoto. 🔻 As a Japanese-American, Ishimoto brought a curiosity and nostalgia to his photography in the old country, which you can feel in this wistful print.
At first glance the subject of Takasawa Keiichi’s Woman in Kimono seems to be looking away demurely. 🔻 Something about her eyes and her smile though suggest maybe she’s just trying to hold back laughter!