#adachi museum of art

[lionofchaeronea]

Still Life: Salmon Slices and Sardines, Tsuchida Bakusen, 1924

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BrvQc_jniY-/

[juliagenet]

Café Taikan I, 2024

[jourdepluie91]

The Adachi Museum of Art (足立美術館, Adachi Bijutsukan) opened in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1970. It houses a collection of nihonga (modern Japanese paintings), including paintings by Yokoyama Taikan, and has a celebrated garden.

Its six gardens and around 1,500 exhibits of Japanese paintings, pottery, and other works of art occupy the 165,000 square-meter area. Adachi Museum of Art earned the top rating of three stars in Michelin Green Guide Japan because of its elegance.

[fly-tempest]

Afternoon Lambency, by Miyasako Masaaki. 2006.

From Adachi Museum, Japan (source).

[1five1two]

'Evening'. Tetsu Katsuda. 1934. Adachi Museum of Art.

[nihonutsukushi]

Adachi Museum of Art Garden, Shimane - Japan

[moonlitmistyforest]

Hishida Shunso - Cat and Plum Blossoms, 1906 color on silk, 49.8 x 118 cm Adachi Museum of Art

This depiction of a quiet, cold, early spring day portrays a cat crouching underneath an old plum tree. The soft spring sun is tempting to the cat but sleep seems to be prevailing. Shunso liked, and often, drew cats. He particularly liked to illustrate black/white spotted cats, and black cats. The realistic cat and the impressive tree trunk are drawn by using an ink diffusion technique. They contrast each other beautifully, suggesting that Shunso, at the time, had sought to integrate the concepts of realism and decoration. He is thought to have perfected this technique in 1910 with his picture – “Black Cat”. via

[lenoraah]

𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴

pairing - frederik vesti x reader

summary - cute and (hopefully) short moments in frederik and reader’s relationship written in headcannons

a/n - this is my first time writing for Frederik, let’s hope this isn’t that bad 🤞

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cooking together-

~yet another hot Danish Motorsport driver who also happens to 6’0/184cm (did i get that right) and has a very perky personality

~okay so i’m pretty sure we all learned some kind of dish from our mother/father before we left for college or our job

~and once a while when it’s a chill and relaxing night together, i see the two of you swapping recipes

~also maybe there just so happens to be a book of international dishes laying around somewhere in your apartment

~dessert recipes would be fun too, as long as the two of you don’t get into a food fight while you make if the cupcakes (no one likes cleaning up flour)

~it’s just a really fluffy idea and is really cute

going to old bookstores-

~all those really aesthetic pics of girls with their boyfriends at bookstores with vintage copies of everything

~oh yeah, that’s you and Frederik

~i think the two of you would get pulled into some bookstore when your going back to your apartment or when you’re in another country and you see a bookstore with a vibe that just pulls you in

~the three pounds for a book sale, i love that

~i think the two of you would be like, ‘okay we’re only getting four books’ and then come out with their thirty

~yeah there’s probably no self control and lots of candid pictures that the two of you took of each other

~I can just here the instagram and pinterest girlies going crazycoffee dates-

~okay here me put~the two of you would end up in a coffee shop after going to a bookstore ~and maybe you would just read or you would just talk for hours on end

~or the two of you would just have your laptops and coffee with scones or biscuits and just sit there doing work with each other’s company

~and the two of you would definitely have stolen glances at each other from time to time~and you would hold each other’s hand and it would just be all romantic and cheesy

~you guys would definitely not be able to stop laughing with you hold eye contact for too long after working for like two hours without looking at each other

visiting art galleries-

~this is for my creative and artistic girlies ~okay so, of course with traveling around the world you’re going to see a lot of art and public statues

~so like, (sorry I haven’t followed the f2 schedule in so long) of course Adachi Museum of Art, Museum voor Schone Kunsten and the Musée océanographique de Monaco

~and of course we can’t forget about the Louvre and MoMA

~i’d like to think that fashion matters when you go to museum

~like, obviously, not full blown~but maybe like Lissie Mackintosh core with your own twist, i mean have you seen her leather jackets and sunglasses

~and maybe for Frederik if we go that far we can do the sweater vest over the dress shirt and chinos or jeans

~your passion for art would be bold strong and he would love and respect that like he loves and respects you

[lemonxdaisybby]

Ichigang and their Animal Crossing Islands

Currently spamming the Dondoko Island mini-game and it’s giving me ultimate Animal Crossing vibes, so here’s headcanons on the Ichigang and their Animal Crossing: NH islands. Short and sweet cos it’s kind of a dumb idea ✨

Also I’ve got my last few requests drafted and hopefully ready to post soon, so if you wanna send in some more headcanon requests please doooo, I could do with the inspo 💕

Ichiban:

Ichi’s island would be pretty chaotic, to be honest. There’s just random items dropped all over the island, from where his pockets got too full, or he’ll even just intentionally place random pieces of furniture somewhere and thinks it looks great, but it does not.

Hasn’t quite got the hang of landscaping or terraforming, so there’s just random cliffs and rivers/ponds dotted about everywhere. The layout makes no sense.

He probably has his character dressed up in a hero costume or outfit.

Also gets very attached to his villagers, and nearly cries when one of them even suggests moving away.

Nanba:

Does not care about his island at all, and couldn’t give a shit about what it looks like. There’s just weeds and buried fossils everywhere, and his house is still un-decorated.

Never interacts with his villagers, but does think it’s funny when he accidentally hits them over the head with the bug net when hunting creepy crawlies.

Speaking of catching bugs, he is surprisingly into the bug hunting and fishing. He has probably caught almost all of them, and visits the museum daily to just admire his collection.

Took him ages to catch the scorpion, as it kept stinging him. He almost rage quit the game.

Adachi:

He literally has no idea what he is doing. He’s terrible at the game. His island is full of weeds, and his fish, bug, fossil and art collection is almost non-existent.

He likely started the game, got confused and switched it off, and forgot about it for ages. When he eventually did log back on, his house was infested with cockroaches, and he just never bothered to get rid of them.

Sometimes visits Nanba’s island, and their characters just chill in the museum together watching all the critters and fishes.

Saeko:

Saeko has the prettiest, most aesthetic island ever. It’s full of flowers, is so organised, and probably has a full on theme that she closely follows. She has fully upgraded her house, and all the furniture and rooms match perfectly.

She honestly gets so offended when an ‘ugly’ villager moves in, and she immediately kicks them out.

Her museum collection isn’t that full, as she sells all of her fishes, bugs, etc. Her priority is earning bells, so she can buy decorations and furniture for her island, and make it as pretty as possible.

Joon-Gi:

The most stylish Animal Crossing character you have ever seen. He changes his outfit every day, and chooses his characters clothes so carefully. His entire island and home is also very aesthetic, and he’s secretly very proud of it.

Joon-Gi has likely almost completed all the fishing, fossil and bug collections, but he keeps getting ripped off by Redd with the artwork. He gets so mad when it happens and Blathers declines his donation.

He would actually be pretty good at the game, and is always so smug when people visit his Island and are blown away by how it looks.

Zhao:

He has purposely made both his island and his character look dumb as fuck, because he finds it funny. He also keeps all the ‘ugly’ villagers, to match the silly vibes.

Follows his villagers around and hits them over the head with the bug net until they get mad at him. He finds it hilarious.

Visits his friends islands and quotes memes or writes funny yet rude messages on their notice boards, but doesn’t tell them. He waits for them to find the messages themselves. It could be a few days to a week later, and he’d get a message from one of his friends like ‘why did you leave this on my noticeboard you weirdo’. Both Joon-Gi and Saeko have banned him from visiting their aesthetic and organised islands because of this.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Yokoyama Taikan

Autumn Leaves Screen, & Details

1931

Japanese folding screen. Adachi Museum of Art

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Autumn Farm Artist: Hashimoto Kansetsu (Japanese, 1883-1945) Date: 1939 Genre: nihonga Medium: color on silk Dimensions: 51.2 cm (20.2 in) high x 65.8 cm (25.9 in) wide Location: Adachi Museum of Art, Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, Japan

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (3/16/24) Uemura Shoen (Japanese, 1875-1949) Woman Waiting for the Moon to Rise (1944) Color on silk; hanging scroll, 73 x 86 cm. Adachi Museum of Art, Yasugi, Japan

Shoen was known primarily for her bijinga paintings of beautiful women in the nihonga style, although she also produced numerous works on historical themes and traditional subjects. This young married woman here, leaning on the banister, is waiting on the moon. Her beautiful hair contrasts her white skin perfectly. The red “naga-juban” (underwear for a kimono) can be seen through the thin kimono. Shoen’s depiction of the woman’s neck and fine skin is outstanding. Her ability appeals to all viewers. The woman’s facial expression, and the large cut sky, give depth and make this painting into a delicate and noble work.

[adachimoe]

Finding Inaba

When I visited Japan in April, I got the idea in my head to visit the region that I believe represents where Persona 4 takes place since I had just replayed it in January. But how do you go somewhere that isn't real? Anime and video game pilgrimages are a thing. The term 聖地巡礼 (pilgrimage to the holy land) is used in Japanese to describe visiting a real life location that was used in a fictional something or other you saw. If you read up on the SMT fan wiki, it tells you to go to Fuefuki in Yamanashi because it has/had buildings there that look like the ones from Persona 4. But I wanted something more "authentic". Rather than go see a building, I wanted to go to an area that I thought reflected the game.

At the start of the game, the protagonist leaves the big city (presumably Tokyo) behind and goes to a small nowheresville city in the sticks called Inaba and he gains a Persona named after Izanagi (one of the important figures from the Kojiki). Inaba is a fictional, but I believe that a mashup of somewhere in Shimane and Tottori makes sense as a "real" location for it.

The game has a lot of references to the Kojiki mythology besides Izanagi - like the name Inaba itself comes from the Hare of Inaba, and the protag goes to a high school called Yasogami High. The modern day equivalents to some of the areas used as settings in those stories can be found in the Sanin region, which spans part of Shimane and Tottori. The eastern half of the Tottori prefecture where Tottori city is also used to be called the Inaba area before it was folded into Tottori. Those 2 are also the least populated prefectures in Japan, contributing to the "small town" and "nowheresville" feeling.

Izanagi's sister/wife that he co-created Japan with, Izanami, is said to be buried on Mt Hiba in Shimane where the modern day city of Yasugi is. (Perhaps Izanami is hanging out as a gas station attendant around her tomb? Hmm.) And Iya, located near Yasugi, has a folklore site called Yomotsuhirasaka named after the entrance to the underworld which also gets referenced as a dungeon. I wrote about my visit there in another post.

The map of Inaba from the game would kinda look like the map of Yasugi if you flipped it upside too. 🤔

The Tottori area in particular also makes sense geographically as the gang could theoretically ride scooters to the beach for the summer event, there's nearby skiing areas for the February event, plus the cast could feasibly go on a class trip to Kobe (the city used as the basis for Iwatodai from P3) from Tottori in a few hours time for the September event. Perhaps Tottori City itself is the larger Okina City in the game?

As you can tell, I have thought about this a completely normal(?) amount because I am unsatisfied with the belief in the fandom regarding Fuefuki in Yamanashi being Inaba purely due to buildings from there being used for location references. I get that Atlus themselves wrote about using Fuefuki as a reference. But like, the eastern half of Tottori used to be called Inaba and you can even go visit Yomotsuhirasaka. To me, the Sanin area represents it better.

Unrelated but amusing coincidence: There's a famous museum with a landscape garden in Yasugi called the Adachi Museum of Art. Clearly, Adachi opened a landscape garden over Izanami's tomb.

[prfm-multiverse]

The costumes arrived at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art on August 6. Until the 10th, seven people, including Michiko Adachi, an instructor at Bunka Fashion College (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) and a decorator, will be carefully applying steamers to the costumes, taking note of their characteristics. They spent more than 30 minutes on each garment, bringing out its three-dimensionality and fluffy texture, and highlighting beautiful forms such as pleats. Ms. Adachi said, "The extra effort brings the garments to life. I am happy to make them ready to be worn and danced in right away.

[tripnest]

Discover Japan's Hidden Gateways to Offbeat Cities and Regions

Introduction When most travelers think of Japan, bustling metropolises like Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka usually come to mind. However, Japan’s charm extends far beyond these iconic cities. For those seeking a deeper, more authentic experience, there are hidden gateways that lead to a world of traditional culture, scenic beauty, and serenity. In this article, we’ll explore some of Japan’s lesser-known cities and regions such as Kanazawa, Takayama, and Kagoshima, offering unique adventures that showcase the country’s rich history and natural landscapes. Kanazawa: The Hidden Gem of the West Nestled on the western coast of Honshu, Kanazawa is often referred to as “Little Kyoto” due to its preserved Edo-period architecture and cultural heritage. This city serves as a gateway to Japan’s traditional arts, including gold leaf craftsmanship, tea ceremonies, and samurai culture. Visitors can wander through Kenroku-en Garden, one of Japan’s most famous gardens, or visit the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art for a mix of modern and ancient Japan. Kanazawa is also a culinary hub, particularly known for its seafood from the nearby Sea of Japan. Unlike the crowded streets of Kyoto, Kanazawa offers a peaceful escape while still retaining the beauty and history of Japan’s past. Takayama: The Gateway to the Japanese Alps For travelers looking to explore Japan’s mountainous regions, Takayama is the perfect gateway. Situated in the heart of the Japanese Alps, this city provides a unique blend of rural charm and traditional architecture. Takayama is famous for its well-preserved old town, where wooden merchant houses line the streets, offering a glimpse into Japan’s Edo period. The city also hosts the Takayama Festival, one of Japan’s most famous festivals, featuring elaborate floats and cultural performances. Beyond the city, Takayama is the gateway to the Hida region, known for its hot springs and the traditional thatched-roof houses of Shirakawa-go, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kagoshima: Gateway to Volcanic Landscapes and Hot Springs Located in the southern part of Kyushu Island, Kagoshima is known as the “Naples of the East” for its scenic beauty and proximity to the active volcano, Sakurajima. This city is a gateway to some of Japan’s most dramatic natural landscapes, including volcanic hot springs, hiking trails, and coastal views. Kagoshima offers a unique combination of natural wonder and historical significance. Visitors can soak in volcanic hot springs, such as the famous Ibusuki onsen, where sand baths are a popular attraction. The city also serves as the gateway to the Satsuma Peninsula, where you can explore ancient samurai culture and visit sites like the Chiran Samurai Residences. Niigata: A Coastal Retreat Situated along the Sea of Japan, Niigata is often overlooked by tourists but offers a gateway to a coastal retreat. Known for its rice production and sake breweries, Niigata provides a more rural experience while still offering access to stunning natural beauty. Visitors can enjoy seafood fresh from the sea, explore the nearby Sado Island, or indulge in relaxing onsen experiences in the surrounding mountains. Niigata is also a winter destination, with several ski resorts offering pristine snow conditions. Its proximity to both the sea and mountains makes it a perfect spot for adventure seekers and wellness enthusiasts alike. Shimane: The Gateway to Japan’s Myths Shimane Prefecture is a land steeped in mythology and ancient history, offering a gateway to Japan’s spiritual roots. Izumo Taisha, one of the oldest and most important Shinto shrines in Japan, is located here, attracting pilgrims and tourists interested in Japan’s religious history. Shimane’s coastline, dotted with quiet fishing villages, offers stunning views of the Sea of Japan and opportunities for a more serene exploration of Japan’s natural beauty. Visitors can also explore the Adachi Museum of Art, famous for its garden, which is considered one of the most beautiful in Japan. The region’s secluded nature makes it ideal for those seeking a peaceful retreat. Conclusion Exploring Japan’s hidden gateways offers a fresh perspective on a country known for its rich history, diverse landscapes, and cultural traditions. Cities like Kanazawa, Takayama, Kagoshima, Niigata, and Shimane allow travelers to escape the crowds and discover the authentic heart of Japan. Whether you’re drawn to the traditional arts, natural beauty, or the historical significance of these regions, Japan’s off-the-beaten-path cities offer a unique and unforgettable travel experience. Read the full article