#soshu art

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On Guru Purnima

Today is guru purnima, a day to recognize and honor our teachers, especially those in matters of religion and life. I’m sobered and grateful for the memory of the myriad people who have supported me, challenged me, and modeled for me new ways of being on my ongoing journey to becoming fully human.

I look back on my early years in appreciation of my parents, Roberta and James.

I look back on my school teachers, chiefly Mrs. Schow and Chef Lunkenheimer.

I look back on my martial arts teachers, chiefly GM Won Kim, Shihan Wells, Sensei Hayakawa, Soshu Shintaku, and Soke WineBrenner.

I look back my spiritual preceptors, chiefly Mr. Steve Klick, Rev. Sue Thorne, Wonji Dochong SSN, Rev. Cliff Kroski and Rev. Janet Sunderland, HT An Duc, HT Nhu Minh, Son Hae SSN, and Fusho Roshi.

Too I find myself grateful for the enduring wisdom and modeling of mentors like Rev. Al Henager, Rev. Vern Barnet, and Myoun Roshi.

None of us arrive where we are on our own. Our teachers and wayshowers, those people who freely give of themselves in hopes of our being able to push beyond even their limitations are some of the most important relationships in our lives. I’m exceedingly fortunately to have sat at the feet of some of the wisest people there are to encounter, and to have received their encouragement, admonition, and expectations. I hope to live up, even fractionally, to the potential they’ve seen in me, and to, more importantly, keep the wisdom ball rolling for another generation.

Bows upon bows 🙇‍♂️ 🙇‍♂️ 🙇‍♂️

~Sunyananda

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Hiroshige - Soshu Shichirigahama (1859)

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Rain at Maekawa in Sagami Province (Soshu Maekawa no ame), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)", Kawase Hasui, 1932, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc. Medium: Color woodblock print; oban

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/197392/

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A blade and mounts for Wakizashi, blade attributed to Fusamune of Soshu, tsuba attributed to Sōheishi Sōtensai,

OaL: 29.75 in/75.7 cm

Blade: 24.4 in/62 cm

Japan, blade ca. late 15th-early 16th century, mounts ca. 18th century, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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HOW BRUCE LEE CAME TO BE A PART OF OUR MARTIAL ARTS FAMILY. AND THE PRACTICE OF "EVEN MASTERS HAVE MASTERS"

HOW BRUCE LEE CAME TO BE A PART OF OUR MARTIAL ARTS FAMILY. AND THE PRACTICE OF “EVEN MASTERS HAVE MASTERS”

Bruce Lee was a student of the arts. And came to our Dojo to learn from my Master Professor Sig Kufferath. Because Professor Kufferaths Master was, Henry S. Okazaki. And Professor Kufferaths other Master was Aikido Master Soshu Koichi Tohei Sensei. Who was the successor to Morihei Ueshiba Sensei, the founder of the art of Aikido.

Master Tohei, was a master of Zen meditation and Misogi breathing…

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本朝名所　相州江ノ嶋岩屋之図|Soshu, Enoshima Iwaya no Zu by Utagawa Hiroshige via Asian Art

Medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37039

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Sugiura Hisui: Image Collector

Sugiura Hisui: Image Collector at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Media: Graphics - Drawing - Photography - Video and Film - Talks (2019-02-09 - 2019-05-26)

Hisui Sugiura (1876-1965) took an important role in the earliest days of Japanese graphic design. He actively promoted Zuan design plans in his publications co-authored with Soshu Watanabe (1890-1986): “Zuan no Bigaku (Aesthetics of Zuan)” and “Jitsuyo Zuan Shiryo Taisei (Compilation of practical Zuan materials)” and was engaged in Zuan education as the first president of Tama Imperial Art School (now Tama Art University) founded in 1935. In addition to Sugiura’s representative works, such as posters for Mitsukoshi Department Store and various cover designs for books and magazines, the exhibition will showcase materials previously owned by Sugiura, including the French illustrated newspaper “L’Illustration,” the American graphic magazine “LIFE,” and his scrapbooks for the first time, so as to reveal another dimension of Sugiura’s creative practice as an “image collector.”

from TAB Events - Most Popular http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2019/F0BC

Sugiura Hisui: Image Collector at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Media: Graphics - Drawing - Photography - Video and Film - Talks (2019-02-09 - 2019-05-26)

Hisui Sugiura (1876-1965) took an important role in the earliest days of Japanese graphic design. He actively promoted Zuan design plans in his publications co-authored with Soshu Watanabe (1890-1986): “Zuan no Bigaku (Aesthetics of Zuan)” and “Jitsuyo Zuan Shiryo Taisei (Compilation of practical Zuan materials)” and was engaged in Zuan education as the first president of Tama Imperial Art School (now Tama Art University) founded in 1935. In addition to Sugiura’s representative works, such as posters for Mitsukoshi Department Store and various cover designs for books and magazines, the exhibition will showcase materials previously owned by Sugiura, including the French illustrated newspaper “L’Illustration,” the American graphic magazine “LIFE,” and his scrapbooks for the first time, so as to reveal another dimension of Sugiura’s creative practice as an “image collector.”

http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png via Art Japan

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Masamune Okazaki  (正宗?), Também conhecido como Gorō Nyūdō Masamune (五郎入道正宗? Padre Gorō Masamune), é amplamente conhecido como o maior ferreirode espadas do Japão. Masamune alcançou um status quase lendário. Entretanto, é consenso que ele fez a maioria das espadas entre 1288 e 1328 D.C.. Criou as espadas conhecidas hoje como Katanas, em Japonês, e as adagas chamadas Tanto, na tradição Soshu. Acredita-se que trabalhou e viveu na Província de Sagami. Um tipo especial de Katana, longa e que pode chegar a 150 centímetros é uma de suas invençôes, sendo que seu estilo recebe até hoje o nome de Masamune-to. Existe um prêmio para ferreiros de espadas chamado Prêmio Masamune no Japão. Embora não contemple ferreiros de espadas todos os anos, contempla ferreiros que fizeram trabalhos excepcionais. No primeiro Final Fantasy de 1987, a espada Masamune era encontrada no calabouço final do jogo e podia ser equipada por qualquer classe. Foi representada desde então em todos os jogos da franquia. No jogo Final Fantasy VII foi a espada do vilão principal. Nos jogos Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Dragon Crystal e Final Fantasy I existe uma espada que se chama Masamune. Assim como as katanas de Nyudo Masamune , essa espada possui um grande poder espiritual. É possivel encontrar também uma espada nomeada Masamune no jogo Soul Calibur II e Soul Calibur III para PlayStation 2. Também é homenageada no jogo Castlevania Symphony of the Night, para o personagem Mitsurugi,tambem no anime Soul eater, existe um personagem intitulado masamune, que tambem e uma katana. Mokiti Okada diz: "A espada de Muramasa, por exemplo, foi feita apenas com o pensamento de matar; a de Masamune foi feita mentalizando a paz. Por isso, dizem que elimina, pelo contrário, a vontade de matar." O sentimento de Masamune ao realizar as espadas era muito nobre, daí entendemos sua conhecida fama. O sentimento nobre de Masamune e suas habilidades ao forjar uma espada fazia-a se tornar quase que uma obra de arte. https://www.instagram.com/p/BpjK2riH1_e/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1psm39y6xq6j7

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Danganronpa V3 AU where everything is exactly the same except Shuichi does this little puppy head tilt whenever he's confused

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Legacy of a wish

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Action assassin

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A long walk home

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Saimatsu: Double Dash!!