#mitate

[distanceorodysseykimuraplus]

[tomoleary]

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) Twelve prints from the series Selections for the Twelve Zodiac Signs (Mitate junishi) (1845)

Source (includes 12 individual images, 7MP each)

[canis-majoris]

[dlyarchitecture]

[hopeaterart]

…what happens if you get under the veil?

That's the distance where she absolutely cannot restrain her radiations/aura anymore. You'd get mutated.

[beatricecenci]

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724-1770)

Mitate of Kikujido

[tanuki-kimono]

I've been trying to write something about the Meiji era with a young woman who (EXTREMELY anachronistically I know) is a note-taker in a court of law. I cannot for the life of me figure out what a woman would wear in that situation. What are your thoughts?

Hi! As you said, the situation you describe is quite an anachronism ^^; I am not familiar with Meiji law system, but I highly doubt a woman, especially a young one, who'd have been allowed in such official position (TBH, I am not even sure "court" as you envisage it was truly a thing before very late Meiji/Taisho).

With that said, it depends of the exact time + the means of your character;

in early Meiji, go for kimono without a doubt, more or less fancy is up to you but court would be quite a formal setting.

In late Meiji, you can get a bit more leeway and add Westernized elements (but please note that full Western dress was only a thing for rich women). If you go a tad informal, go for the trademark "working" look of kimono+hakama which was very popular for girls/young women

Mitate+ has a good overiew of the period (text in French but lot of pics!) => Meiji / Taisho

I don't know if it's your reference, but maybe have a look at characters in the games of the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles serie - the Meiji era inspiration in veeery loose ;)

[japaneseaesthetics]

Utagawa Hiroshige's "Edomurasaki Famous Genji Mitate Ukifune".

[the-cricket-chirps]

Nana Shiomi

Mitate No. 35 - Front of the Back (Ushiro no Shomen)

2000

[artdepo]

Tamura Yoshiyasu

“Mitate- Marilyn”

[distanceorodysseykimuraplus]

[nobrashfestivity]

Toyokuni III (AKA Kunisada, 1786 - 1864)

Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Endo Musha: Poem by Fujiwara no Nakafumi

Series: Mitate of Selected Thirty-six Selected Poems

Woodblock Print

Date: 1852

Size (H x W): 14 x 9.5 (inches)Publisher: Iseya Kanekich

ronin gallery

[immaturityofthomasastruc]

You know seeing that tweet of astruc hating on a fan and telling them to “do better” and “you wouldn’t get the opportunity” because the fan criticized him for saying “the show is what you need and the movie is what you want”, so I’ll do what he asked and do better than him on the aspect I hate the most about the show (besides the shipping and what he did to Chloe) the villains.

Dr.Franklie:a old friend of Gabriel which is the one helping keep Emilie alive in her coffin, eventually Gabriel reaches for him again to help him make permanent Akumas and The doctor does has asked but in reality he wants the miraculous for itself for thinking the human race needs to evolve and he wants it to evolve with him has the emperor of humanity.

Jawbreaker:a teenage boy in Paris has a very bad relationship with he’s parents, a prankster dad which is very aggressive physically and a Cold Mom which is aggressive verbally, he tries to drown he’s stress by dedicating in painting but one day he’s father abandons them and he’s mother blames him, he loses it and 💀, he’s arrested and put on trial but he’s freed by Dr.Franklie which runs test on him using the Akumas Gabriel gave the doctor, he mutate into a monster which ends up absorbing part of the power of destruction from cat noir and it mitates into a bigger monster named Jawbreaker (for he’s always open venom like jaw)

Iron heart:a young girl which has been lost in the streets of Paris since she was young, her family died on a car accident meaning she didn’t have anyone but herself and other criminals of her age to be with. She ended up developing a passion for music but because of her situation that dream kinda died, specially when she was arrested by none other than ladybug while trying to rob the Dupan-cheng’s bakery, but she was freed by Dr.Franklie which mutated her aswell except her entire body got melted into a puddle of meta till she absorbs some creation power of ladybug, she ended up turning into a humanoid monster with her body entirely made out of metal able to bend metal at her will (her villain names comes from he’s Last name “Lion heart” which is the only thing she remembers from her family mixed with her new metallic form)

Queen Astra:Dr.Franklie seeing how he’s monsters (jawbreaker and Iron heart) still hold some humanity, he decides to make a “fake miraculous” and he uses it on a plan with Hawkmoth to use Iron heart,Jawbreaker and a Akuma, all of them together so they can use the fake miraculous on ladybug but it accidentally latches itself with Vesperia, The fake miraculous is actually a artificial parasite designed to be the perfect Monster with no redeeming qualities whatsoever which absorbs the miraculous energy (or any kind of energy) and the AI of the fake miraculous ends up taking over Zoe’s body and mutating her into a energy based being named Queen Astra (from Astraphobia “fear of lightning”) she acts has the right hand and spy to the doctor till she decides it’s time to strike, so she reveals there isn’t a cure for their mutantions causing her mutant partners to riot and not only kill the doctor but also take over all of Paris and they even attack the agreste mansion in a attempt to get the butterfly miraculous, she ends up absorbing so much energy she mutates into a being similar to a kwami (like Tikki using her powers in dearest family) in power and betrays her partners revealing she wants to destroy the human race but she has a weakness which is Zoe’s family which she reuses to hurt even under Atra’s control (for family I mean Mr.Lee,Andre and Chloe. Audrey doesn’t count) at the end her partners and Chloe redeem themselves ripping out the parasite out of Zoe and allowing Ladybug and Cat noir to save the day and destroy Astra queen. Her partners surrender and are put under vigilance in hope they will find a cure for their mutations

I designed each villain to be a mirror to the heroes, Jawbreaker is a mirror to Adrien (instead of a distant family he loves, he has a family he wishes he never saw again. and meanwhile Cat noir Can destroy things Jawbreaker can Break things… which means he can break something apart but I can be fixed) Iron heart and Marinette (Marinette has thousands of friends and family meanwhile Iron heart has nothing, Ladybug Can create meanwhile Iron heart Can Modify preexisting things to make something new) and Astra is a mirror to Chloe (imagine the old seasons Chloe which wasn’t the best person but could get better, meanwhile Astra is just Season 4 and 5 Chloe, I see it has a way to showcase the fans fighting the awful damnation and Double standards the show has on Chloe remembering season 2 Chloe, and the fact they are controlling Zoe is to A-showcase the writers forcing the characters to do things they wouldn’t do, B-showcase how Zoe only existed to take the good out of Chloe, C-being ironical since Zoe is being forced to be a evil person once again except this isn’t something she can reuse to do now, and D-to add emotional stakes, since queen banana they said Zoe will always love her sister and I think if Zoe actually showcased that and tried to help Chloe to stop following her mothers footsteps, would also make the posession and the stakes of the situation all the more tragic and emotional)

Also notice how I said they are redeemed (except the doc and Astra) because they are kids, they didn’t even want to be here, they went through so much stuff I think redemption and rehabilitation is needed and deserved for them. Meanwhile the grown man and the robot die because 1-he’s a grown man which turned children into monsters, he deserves to die, 2-that’s just a machine doing what she was programmed to do, the only way to stop a machine from working is destroying it.

Also I thought of their personality’s to also mirror the heroes

Jawbreaker could be calm and collected but always open for a small joke outside of all the fighting, Iron heart could be loud and energetic always cracking jokes but a very good friend and Astra would be Chloe but smarter, eviler and Sadistic

I never wanted to share any of these because I thought I couldn’t do better and calling my own work better than Astruc’s would be too self centered, not self aware of how obnoxious that sounds, and knowing comparing my work to others and calling my own better is nothing but straight up being a “a**hole”, but in reaction to him being just that big of a I-di-OTA (get it?) I think calling myself better than him is nothing but deserved

The best part with all of these ideas is that even if you showed them to Astruc, he would still come up with a way to explain why they wouldn't work compared to the villains on his show.

[mybeingthere]

Akihiro Higuchi, Japanese, b. 1969.

“Higuchi’s models are not real animals. Instead, they are animal-shaped molds made from urethane foam (a material commonly used in modern taxidermy). Therefore, strictly speaking, Higuchi’s art is not simply about animals but rather about human behaviour. His sculptures illustrate excessive love of animals, the inclination to humanise them and the guilty conscience when using animals as food, for clothing or other purposes. 

Parallels to the Japanese pictorial tradition of mitate, in which historical events and individuals (fictional and non-fictional) are juxtaposed into the same image to humorous effect, are also present in Higuchi’s art. His stag beetles are a good example of this reference to tradition. Higuchi paints their shells with coats of arms and emblems that resemble those of old Samurai clans. As a result, the insect’s body gains an uncanny resemblance to the distinct armors worn by the warriors back in the day. Nature serves as a canvas for Higuchi.”

[howardia]

Heed O brothers, thou may submit tomes of yer own, and I may hath my ancient scribes write a caption thus—describing the very tome ye put forth. But HEED…false tomes like (A)lien (I)mitation shall be ground to dust!

[priiisdope]

Hateli par tumhara naam likhte hai mitate hai

Tumhi se pyar karte hai tumhi se hi kyu chupate hai?

Zubaan pe baat hai lekin sunana hi nahi aata

Humey tumse mohabbat hai batana bhi nahi aata

Chupana bhi nahi aata, jatana bhi nahi aata.