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  No.14◆東京白茶（とうきょうしらちゃ）-TokyoShiracha

  「白茶」にほんのり黄みが乗った色。 1868年、「江戸」という名前が消え、日本の首都名は「東京」となり、明治時代が幕を開けた。その頃、様々な名前に「東京」を冠することが流行した。 新時代の幕開けに心躍る人々の気持ちがその名に宿っている。 A color with a hint of yellow over a pale tea-like hue. In 1868, the name 'Edo' disappeared, and Japan’s capital was renamed 'Tokyo,' marking the beginning of the Meiji era. Around that time, it became popular to add 'Tokyo' to various names, reflecting the excitement of the people as they embraced the dawn of a new era. ◇ー・ー・ー・ー・ー・◇ 東京に憧れているお上りさん。足が悪いので、自力で歩くことができない。流行に敏感な少年で、田舎の地でも都会っぽい格好をする自分が好き。周囲から浮いていても何も気にしない。強い心の持ち主。 A country boy who dreams of Tokyo. Due to his weak legs, he cannot walk on his own. He’s a trend-savvy youth who loves dressing in a city style, even while living in the countryside. He doesn't care about standing out from those around him and has a strong, confident spirit. List~2024/12/30. [This work will be listed until December 30th. If no auction bids are received, the listing will be withdrawn on December 30th]

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  Mizuki

  In the mystical underworld circus, a shape-shifting dancer named Mizuki captivates audiences with her enchanting performances. As twilight falls, she transforms into various creatures, seamlessly blending beauty and mystique. Amidst shadows, she brings sparking a tale of forbidden love and the dance between light and darkness.

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  Joseon Ladies : SAGE

  This special series features beautiful girls in various kind of Korean traditional oversized hairstyles from the Joseon Dynasty. Each of them in traditional hanbok. These kinds of hairstyle carry their own symbolism like as protection from evil influences and also to portray marital and wealth status. The artwork is an experimental attempt by the artist to combine both traditional (hand drawn inking) as preliminary drawing stage and post-produced with digital rendering. The flowers included are to emphasize the elegance and femininity exudes by the ladies. Immense level of details is put in both the flowers and the portraits. These 5 portraits also are part of artist’s personal 100 heads challenge, they are heads number 85-90 out of 100.

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  lightning.

  Based on Serbian folk tradition, we can see that there was a widespread belief in dragons (ЗМАЈ), mythical creatures that are imagined differently in various places and occasions. Not to be confused with Ala or Aždaja, those were completely different beings. According to beliefs about appearance and some characteristics, we can divide them into three groups: dragons that identify with meteorites, dragon-men, and dragon-serpents. What they all have in common is that they are not evil beings, although there are exceptions, and they are not that rare. The appearance of the dragon was shaped by the popular imagination in different ways, connecting it with traditions and giving it certain attributes, so sometimes it's hard to even imagine what they looked like. Sometimes they change shape, sometimes they share common elements from all three mentioned groups, while sometimes they are talked about without any details at all. Yet we can list a few examples. In eastern Serbia, it was believed that the dragon was some kind of bird with a ram's head and a snake's tail which flies at night and lightens up the sky like a shooting star. There is also a belief that the dragon is born from a carp (fish), when it reaches forty years of age, because that's when it gets legs and wings. Sometimes, again, the dragon is imagined as an eagle fighting with Alas and Aždajas, which then creates stormy clouds and lightning. At last, a dragon can also have a human appearance. In eastern Serbia, certain people were believed to be dragons. They defend their village and region from the elements. For many figures from our folklore, it's been said that they were dragons or to have been born from a dragon and a fairy, or an ordinary human woman. It was believed that there are ordinary people who are dragons, and when disaster strikes, they die and seem to fall asleep, and from their bodies then a spirit (or a duplicate) comes out, which goes to fight with the thunderclouds. According to this belief, dragons could be both male and female. Likewise, it was believed that the dragon was stronger younger, it was even thought that the strongest dragon would be the newborn baby that hadn't even been nursed yet. It is clear from the whole description that the dragon from our folk mythology is a greatly anthropomorphized being, having the same characteristics as a human. He thinks and works like an ordinary man, he just has other certain characteristics, he can fly, he has enormous strength, he has the ability to shape-shift from one form to another (from a man he can become an eagle and vice versa; or he can leave the body in the form of a spirit and go fight with other demons) etc. To a large extent , the dragon represents our exceptionality, because of his uniqueness and differences in relation to the mythologies of other Slavic peoples.