Kakejiku - Making of a Japanese Hanging Scroll

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  @chicagofineart9546 · 4 years ago

  "I go into my work and my work goes into me". Deeply moving. I wish you many more happy years of making Kakejiku.

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• GL

  @GlobetrottingMusicologist · 12 years ago

  Hokusai:<br>&quot;From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.&quot;

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• HO

  @howdoesitgetbetter · 11 years ago

  I was deeply touched by this documentary. If everybody could put their full heart and soul into their work how amazing would our world be?

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• NA

  @namnhan2003 · 12 years ago

  Japanese artisans always amaze me with their dedication, love toward their works. &nbsp;That is a key to their flawless, exquisite products. &nbsp;I can`t never get bored to watch any japanese artisans at work, all of them, i must say; pour out their mind and soul into their doings like they are their own children. &nbsp;My absolute admirations...

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• PA

  @paulbrennan1268 · 3 years ago

  Thank you for sharing such beauty and joy! I have learned so much from watching this

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• CH

  @Charlesguqin · 10 years ago

  I do Chinese scroll mounting myself for my artworks and it is interesting to compare the two different methods and aesthetics of doing the same thing. For example, the Japanese like to use a wider range of brocades and mounting silks whereas the Chinese use a more limited range of subtle patterns, and whereas the Japanese mount the two swallow strips sticking out, the Chinese have them firmly stuck down onto the mount.

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• FE

  @fernandalopes1118 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m on the other side of the world in Brazil, I love Japanese culture with respect to drawing and writing too. 😊

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• WO

  @WolfShadowwhisper · 11 years ago

  I always saw these scrolls in Anime and Japanese movies and decided to see how they are made and I must say this video impressed me and I have a great deal of respect for this beautiful art form. Thank you so much for sharing this with us

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• ZE

  @zeeverlich · 11 years ago

  Loved this film. The &quot;kotowaza&quot; nyu ga ga nyu was described in a beautiful and touching way. Thank you so much for creating this film.

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• CH

  @choward6279 · 12 years ago

  This is a beautiful short film that captures so well both the craft of scroll mounting and the feeling in the work of the craftsman. It is really a timeless statement about our love of making things. Very nice work!

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• JA

  @Jarrod_Macfarlane · 6 years ago

  This is beautiful. Thank you for creating this film.

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• RO

  @rouilliewilkerson6834 · 12 years ago

  So much work goes into this, I had no idea. I&apos;ll never look at one of these the same way again. Thanks for sharing this!

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