100 Aspects of the Moon-Japanese Art
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Sunday December 16, 2007 15:53
by Ariko
On exhibition until Feburary 17th
The Rites of Passage religious exhibit is currently closed, which was mesmeric in it's
disection of the hypnosis of world religion, if one could avoid the big screens the bits of
the Nag Hammadi Gospel and huge Buddhist Mandalas were worth a visit.
'100 aspects of the Moon' is the current exhibition and every single print has a bit of moon
in it- on Helmets, behind women (!) and accomnpanying dark and scary warriors.
You could say there are many moons. The Chester Beatty is located in the Grounds of Dublin
Castle and is far better than the auction house that comprises the State apartments, where
Sarkozy will be welcomed to persuade the unsuae celts about his Reform Treaty.[2008]
The Chester Beatty Library was housed in Ballsbridge ,complete with outdoor pond and low
lighting to ensure against decreptitude. There are scraps of Gospel in climate control cases
generally on view and working quills in the gift shop. The Moon exhibition is in the Reading
area, which means going to the main gallery and following the bridge into the Japanese area
(temporary).
The images of women and the moon are pretty tremendous especially of the sucidal
Ariko in her boat:
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'Ariko weeps as her Boat Drifts in Moonlight' [Ariko na Sushi 829-900)
the Print is 1886.
the poem:-
'it would be better for me to sink
beneath the waves
Perhaps then I could see
My man from moon capital'
(its about Hari-kari stuff. immolation, and if ye are not into that prostitution in the
moonlight vyes with moon-warriored helmetted men.)
The images are print and have a Western influence but the detail is tremendous
with very startling colours, its an Amercan collection. Monday to Friday of next week(btw)
will be probably the last chance people will get to see Yeat's eye glasses and sword
at the National Library.
Susano-o God of Moon and water appears in the narrative with the legend of the pillars
that are partially submerged in water told in both the prints and tales.
[The illustration is of Sen:- from 'Spirited Away' a recent japanese cartoon about naming
and was mostly completed in old style hand -painted animation, which completes the-is
little review of Japanese moon art].
