Show Navigation

Shibori Manga Choju-jinbutsu-giga, animals frolicking with sports. Kyoto Shibori Museum, Kyoto, Japan.

Kyoto Shibori Museum opened in 2001 to protect and pass down the knowledge of the shibori traditional fabric dyeing technique, in Kyoto, Japan. Their displayed artwork "Sport in the forest", or "Shibori Manga Choju-jinbutsu-giga", shows Monkeys, frogs and rabbits enjoy sports on a piece of 40 meter silk scroll completed using shibori dyeing and tujiga-hana techniques. Originally drawn in the Heian period around the 1100s-1200s, these caricatures are derived from the scroll of Choju-jinbutsu-giga ("Animal-person Caricatures" or 'Choju-giga' for short), well-known as one of the oldest manga (cartoon) in Japan. Toba Sojo and others created the historic Choju-giga or "Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Humans". The coming 2020 Tokyo Olympics helped inspired the modern 40 meter silk artwork shown in Kyoto Shibori Museum.

Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download
Filename
1810JPN-7038.jpg
Copyright
© Tom Dempsey / PhotoSeek.com
Image Size
5472x3648 / 6.8MB
http://www.photoseek.com/
Contained in galleries
Kyoto, 2018 Oct 10-Nov8: JAPAN all, JAPAN favorites
Kyoto Shibori Museum opened in 2001 to protect and pass down the knowledge of the shibori traditional fabric dyeing technique, in Kyoto, Japan. Their displayed artwork "Sport in the forest", or "Shibori Manga Choju-jinbutsu-giga", shows Monkeys, frogs and rabbits enjoy sports on a piece of 40 meter silk scroll completed using shibori dyeing and tujiga-hana techniques. Originally drawn in the Heian period around the 1100s-1200s, these caricatures are derived from the scroll of Choju-jinbutsu-giga ("Animal-person Caricatures" or 'Choju-giga' for short), well-known as one of the oldest manga (cartoon) in Japan. Toba Sojo and others created the historic Choju-giga or "Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Humans". The coming 2020 Tokyo Olympics helped inspired the modern 40 meter silk artwork shown in Kyoto Shibori Museum.
Info