Zwei Auberginen | Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真 | 1807-1891 Vögel three three-line poems fill the

three three-line poems fill the format

The fascinating thing about this discipline is the reduction of the message to a predetermined form

Red and white are two colors that belong together in Japan: in the indigenous Shintō religion

the bald head are just as round as the moon - and the whole figure is inscribed in a circle

" But almost all other combinations involving the character ta also represent something negative

Zwei Auberginen | Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真 | 1807-1891 Vögel three three-line poems fill theShibata Zeshin is best known as a lacquer painter. From an artistic and technical standpoint, this is a distinctly Japanese craft that has never achieved comparable sophistication in any other culture. Shibata Zeshin is undisputedly the most brilliant artist in this genre. Prices for this artists lacquer works had already reached dizzying heights by the end of the 19th century. His lacquer works are represented in all major Asian art collections