Without Mother

In the weekend, my friends invited me to go with her to dog SUperMarket at District Go Vap. That is just a small market for sale dogs. In these, I saw a the leaving between bitch and it's puppies. So sad, so sorrow





The mother did not want to leave her child and went around around the case.....

Shadow

When I was drinkong milk tea at Huong Duong's kiosk, I watched a a nice side. I have known about the shadow art, so at that time, I think it í very interesting. It maybe a shadow art maybe not. However, how great is it!!! (^0^)

Look like I stay in a lager spider's coburb

Under ocean

These are corals which was dried by fisherman in Phu Quoc. Although these are not still alive, but they are very beautiful. the structure of the coral is strange. Bones covers their body.
Small shop safes coral

COral with screw's covers

The beautiful : Leaf coral



The fisherman with his dogs at shop

Shinning in the sun

Have you seen the flower when you wake up?
Have you ever known the beauty of your garden in morning?
Have you ever taken photograph when you in you only underware???

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I have,because I cannot stop to say " How beautiful you are, my garden??"






above your head is a beauty heaven

Colorful

There are my old photograph last year, however I never feel boring when I had viewed them. With me their colors are interesting, shinning and beautiful. Another one,another colors. Some is beauty, some is ugly. But when they commit together it paints a lovely side seeing.(^_^)
There are to pics that I think not beauty so much, because it just has few fishes




These pic is more lively, I took it when i was feeding fishes


These is the most beatiful pic of my series hihihihihi... when many people fed the fish....

ShangHai at Night

Last week, I went to Shanghai with my family. Shanghai is a beautiful and a big city in China, even though less than 2% popularization staying there. (^o^)

However I LOVE SHANGHAI by night kekeke,
It is so lovely, shinning and luxurious.
Now, i will show some of my pics of Shanghai at night.

karacho’s karakami

woodblock-printed paper

established in kyoto in 1624, karacho is japan's only
‘karakami’ maker (woodblock-printed paper).
still in operation today, the karacho workshop has been
directed by members of the senda family for 12 generations,
preserving a japanese tradition. the sendas are the
custodians of 650 hand-carved wooden blocks, made over
the centuries and they still use them to produce the
karakami paper for which karacho is world famous.
some blocks are more than 200 years old - the oldest
(with a checkered pattern of chrysanthemums), dates back
to 1792. when the residential quarter of the karacho studio
burned down in the 1864 hamaguri gomon incident,
the woodblocks were placed in a wash-tub of water in
a storehouse with earthen walls. to protect the blocks
from fire, craftsmen kept pouring water on them. such a
close encounter with destruction has ensured that the
surviving woodblocks are treated as a treasure.
the senda family still produces karakami for temples
and other traditional places in japan. additionally they
produce on demand for architects (kengo kuma is among
them). while western-style housing increasingly is favored
by many japanese, there is also a growing number
of people who want to decorate parts of their homes with
traditional karakami patterns.

karakami patterns
the technique has remained virtually unchanged for more
than 400 years: karakami is produced by pressing pigment
onto paper using patterned wooden blocks. the patterns
show the strong artistic influence of the ‘rimpa’ school of
painting, as the studio was used by artist honami koetsu
(1558-1637), one of the founders of the school.
the meditative designs combine subtle colors with a
pattern of freedom and life force. nature provides the spirit
of invention and discovery that inspires the ornaments of
all the patterns. with the rise of popular culture in the
edo period (1603-1868), the karacho woodblock prints
became a major artform and its technique was fine tuned
to produce hand-made prints used to decorate sliding doors,
walls and single-leaf screens. karakami woodblock prints
also had an important influence on 18th-century european
wallpapers textile patterns and patterns on book covers.
further on we will examine the production of karakami
(see page 2).

fusama doorsonce, the space under the roof of a japanese house was
partitioned with screens into several spaces. these movable
screens were eventually fixed into the wood frame and
became sliding ‘fusama’ doors. fusuma doors are used as
movable walls, so when people host large gatherings in the
house the panels can be removed to make one large space.
originally several sheets of paper, in sets of 5, 10, or 12,
were required to cover a fusama door, at the end of taisho
period (1912 - 1926), techniques were successfully
developed to make large single sheets that were
‘fusama’ size. the nobility were first to use karakami paper
on fusama doors their preference was for patterns based on
their family crests and which reflected their court ranking
and status. the majority of the patterns are combinations of
flowers and plants such as chrysanthemum, bamboo, maple,
and pine with geometric designs of diamonds, squares,
tortoise-shell motifs, circles, crisscrossing lines and wave
patterns. other popular motives include cranes and clouds.
the senda family also repair sliding doors at historical sites
such as ‘katsura rikyu’


woodblocks



detail of wave pattern on woodblock


detail of clouds pattern on woodblock




kenkichi senda, the master craftsman and eleventh-generation head of karacho studio,
is showing a sheet of paper with big wave patterns called ‘korin onami’.



the blocks are sorted according to the number required to print one ‘fusama’



the original woodblocks were carved by craftsmen almost 400 years ago.
most of the blocks are made of easy-to-carve ‘honoki’ wood, which has a fine, soft grain
and rarely warps or cracks.



karakami expert wakoku shoshoku etsukushi (1685