Word and Image

[karadin.livejournal.com]

 

Truly, this is where
Travelers who go or come
Over parting ways--

Friends or strangers--all must meet:
The gate of "Meeting Hill."

Semimaru

Comments

[proud-snapist.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KARADIN!!!!!!!!!!!

btw, I'm like O_O!!! over the uber young GACKT in kimono pic! Love the word and image here. "the gate of 'Meeting Hill'." That is uber-thumbs-up.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have a soft spot for Gackt in kimono!

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Thank you! 'D

[novlomien.livejournal.com]

Wahhh it's your birthday Karadin?! Happy birthday!!!! *throws confetti*

Thank you so much for the words and image... I really love seeing these! :)

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[asliceofthemoon.livejournal.com]

what a lovely pic of GACKT...thank you for this, Karadin-san!
could you please share the original picture? i LOVE collecting pics of GACKT in kimonos, he looks awesome here...

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I think it's time for a Gackt-in-Kimono picspam.

[asliceofthemoon.livejournal.com]

oh yay, that's great! *dances*
will contribute some too, if i can!

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

Lovely combination! I really like what you've done with the photo and card - it's got exactly the right feeling of that time when modern was picking up its cue but tradition was still on the stage. Somewhere I've got a rice-paper Japanese calendar from about 1900 with just the same feeling; it's too fragile to handle much but it sticks in my mind like a foreign holiday. Your postcard will do the same, I think!

Thanks very much for making the post.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I love antique postcards and prints, my grandmother gave me a large box of vintage cards from the 1900s that my great uncle wrote when he played for the Black Sox baseball league back then. So maybe that's where I get that affinity. It shows up in the first Gackt Army birthday card for Gackt and that limerick banner from your contest last year.

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful thing to be given, especially with the family sporting connexion! I've inherited all sorts of strange things but merely because certain family members were acquisitive, rather than for any systematic personal reason like sending postcards home from ones travels.

I've remembered that my old hasegawa woodblock calendar has a couple of good kimono paintings (including a strange night market picture) so I'll go and take a photo and show you in an email. From what I can discover, Hasegawa used to flood the English speaking markets (Leipzig, Sydney, London, Boston - you name it) with Japanalia (fairy tales, poetry, calendars) from about 1880 to 1925 or so; they were clearly popular and there are quite of a few of the prints surviving despite the fragile construction. They're sort of typique rather than lovely, but interesting now for their historical value (e.g. the chrysanthemum viewing picture in my calendar has an odd mix of traditional Japanese dress and Western costume looking more like 1920 than 1900).