Maruyama Ōkyo.
Sleeping cat detail, Scroll, 1780s
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Torah is such a round word. Like you think of Torah and you think “yeah thats definitely on a scroll” and guess what!! It is!!! Torah is literally the perfect word for what it is.
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Scroll of birds, late 1800s, Japan.
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Scrollon V. Addison, after he gets caught and put 'under watch' and study to figure out what is going on with him.
The Scrollore:
Scroll is a very successful food mascot, an idol in cyber city. He's most often marketed off of his cuteness and good looks. He's also empty on the inside. He doesn't feel much emotion in his day to day life.
The most he feels is irritations, boredom and a yearning to fill the void somehow. He has a twisted view of the world, the kind where metaphors start getting literal. He believes he lacks something that everyone else has.
He's not sure what it is, whether its emotions, a real personality, a soul or just relationships, but whatever it is, he wants to obtain it by eating others, thinking that will make him whole.
Hunting down and eating others is the closest he gets to actually feeling something, although none of it really lasts by the time he finishes his plate, so he moves on to the next. He also feels one more thing; the fear that he is the one getting devoured.
Over time, the line between him and the food he's associated with got really blurry, and he began thinking that Addisons are food for the consumers. Him consuming others is a way of staying in control and putting himself above the rest.
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Bally, wood elf rogue/wizard by Nuesora
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Maple and Flowers, attributed to Suzuki Kiitsu, 1840s
Ink and color on hanging silk scroll
40 ¼ x 11 ⅝ in. (102.2 x 29.6 cm)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
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Golden pine shoot, Nihonga painting by Fujii Tatsukichi (ca. 1910).
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Qi Baishi
Chicks and a Grasshoppers
The work is on display at the ': From Carpenter to Master' exhibit at the Seoul Arts Center.
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Acting on the Japanese concept that things should be slowly discovered rather than immediately apparent. Australians Ann and Chris Seddon have used sudare as a subtle room divider in their Tokyo home.
At Home with Japanese Design, 1990
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