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Japan Rain, Snow & Art18

Late May to June is the season of iris flowers in Japan. Irises are major flowers in Japanese gardens, some big temples and shrines. Purple of the flowers and glossy green of their leaves are symbolic of natural beauty of Japanese early summer.

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  1. JAPAN Rain, Snow & Art

  2. Seasons are a main theme in the Japanese culture. Flowers are like mirrors to the seasons, reflecting the passage of time. Fittingly, flower viewing is a very popular activity in Japan as most prominently seen in the annual festivities surrounding the cherry blossoms, but not limited to them

  3. Late May to June is the season of iris flowers in Japan. Irises are major flowers in Japanese gardens, some big temples and shrines. Is now early summer but people connect the image of irises to rain rather the clear sky in Japan

  4. The end of the Spring, flowers have changed from cherry blossoms and then azalea to iris. These flowers known by the name of iris in English has several types as Ayame, Kakitsubata, and Hana-shobu, very similar but thee shape of leaf are subtly different

  5. Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1865) Visiting an Iris Garden

  6. Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1865) Visiting an Iris Garden, 1857

  7. Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1865) Visiting an Iris Garden, 1857 (fragment)

  8. Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1865) Japanese Woodblock Print

  9. Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1865) Visiting an Iris Garden, circa 1832

  10. Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1865) Visiting an Iris Garden, circa 1832 detail

  11. Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) Fireflies over water (triptych)

  12. Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) Edo-Tokyo museum

  13. Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842-1894) Summer in an Iris Garden

  14. Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914)  Japanese Woodblock Print Beauties in an Iris Garden

  15. Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914)  Beauties in an Iris Garden - fragment Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) 

  16. Suzuki Harunobu (1725- 1770) Picking Iris in the Rain 1768 Metropolitan Museum of Art

  17. Toyohara Chikayoshi (Active 1870 - late 1880) Songs of the Four Seasons- Spring – Women in an iris garden

  18. Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese, 1796-1858) Irises and Moth Metropolitan Museum of Art

  19. Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese, 1796-1858) Irises and Moth Metropolitan Museum of Art - fragment

  20. Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese, 1796-1858) Irises and Moth Metropolitan Museum of Art - fragment

  21. Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945) Iris (1900’s

  22. Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945) Flowering Iris

  23. Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945) Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945) Iris and Egret 1936

  24. Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945) Kingfisher and Blue Iris, 1926

  25. Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945) Two Common Gallinules with Purple Iris Woodblock Print 1920s

  26. Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945) Two Common Gallinules with Purple Iris

  27. Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945) Iris and Kingfisher Ohara Koson Flowering Iris

  28. Kōno Bairei (1844 –1895)

  29. Rare Nippon Humidor With Moriage Iris Kōno Bairei (1844 –1895)

  30. Retro Otagiri Japan jewelry box

  31. Ryoichi Sato (1955-) Seiji Sano ( 1959 - ) Month of Iris

  32. Seitei Watanabe (1851-1916) Iris and frog 1916 Seitei Watanabe

  33. Seitei Watanabe (1851-1916)

  34. Okiie Hashimoto (1899-1993)

  35. Shiro Kasamatsu (1898 - 1991)

  36. Shiro Kasamatsu (1898 - 1991)

  37. Shodo (Kodo) Kawarazaki (1899-1973) Origami Moyo (Origami Designs) Shodo Kawarazaki

  38. Shodo Kawarazaki (1899-1973) Kakitsubata

  39. Shodo Kawarazaki (1899-1973)

  40. Tsuzen Nakajima (Japan, 1944) Shogun Kogiso

  41. Shoko Uemura (1902-2001)

  42. Shoubu (Japanese Iris) Wood-block Print, 1909 (Meiji Era) Printed by Unso-do, Kyoto)

  43. Shufu Miyamoto (Japan, 1950 - )

  44. Shufu Miyamoto (Japan, 1950)

  45. Rakusan Tsuchiya Japanese iris and ruddy-breasted crake Rakusan Tsuchiya (1896-1976)

  46. Rakusan Tsuchiya (1896-1976)

  47. Rakusan Tsuchiya (1896-1976)

  48. Rakusan Tsuchiya (1896-1976) Iris and moorhen Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

  49. Text & pictures: Internet All  copyrights  belong to their  respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu https://www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda 2017 Sound: Melody (Miyuki Ishikawa) - Love story

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