The Fushimi Inari-Taisha is a Shintō shrine in the Fushimi district of Kyōto city.
The Inari Temple at Kyōto, Japan.
Tag: Japanese theme
Japanese culture of the 19th and early 20th century. Culture, arts and crafts, customs, mythology, religion and everyday life.
Japan. Purple Iris by Ogata Kōrin.
From paintings in colours on a gold-paper ground, mounted as a pair of six-leaf screens.
Hanabusa Itchō. One of the Four Refined Amusements. Japan.
Hanabusa Itchō was a Japanese painter and artist of the middle Edo period (Genroku period).
Kiku. The Chrysanthemum. Mythological Japan.
The chrysanthemum is the flower of autumn and is sometimes referred to as the national flower of Japan
About the blossoms of the plum tree in spring
The flowers and gardens of Japan by Florence and Ella Du Cane.
The Seven Patrons of Happiness & the Japanese Treasure Ship.
The Shi chi fuku Jin (七福神 shichifukujin) or seven Patrons of Happiness.
Large flower vase. Kutani ceramic. Kaga, Japan.
Kaga, Ko Kutani ceramic. Large flower vase (hanaike), of rather soft white pottery.
Japan. Mount Fuji as seen from Kashiwabara.
Mount Fuji as seen from Kashiwabara, 1897, by Kazumasa Ogawa.
The garden of the Kinkakuji, Kyoto, Japan
The garden of the Kinkakuji, or Golden Pavilion, is one of the most historically interesting spots of the ancient capital, Kyoto.
The courtesan Takao. Kakemono by Miyagawa Chōshun
The painting is a reduced copy from a fine kakemono by Miyagawa Chōshun