Ukiyo-e 20, TH-3, Handbag - Hokkei, Painted Shells

Ukiyo-e Bag - Painted Shells. Art inspires fashion - Exotic style fashion. Ukiyo-e (Japanese, meaning "Pictures of the Floating World"). Ukiyo-e depicts and records the life of Japanese people in the Edo period. It represents Japanese art of 17-19 centuries. Painted Shells, Tsurezuregusa from the series “Essays in Idleness”「つれ／＼草」 「貝をおほふ人の我まへなるをはをきてよそを見わたし」「つれ／＼草」The subject of this print is derived from “Essays in Idleness” (徒然草, Tsurezuregusa) which is a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Yoshida Kenko between 1330 and 1332. The work is widely considered a gem of medieval Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of this genre.「貝をおほふ人の我まへなるをはをきてよそを見わたし」Literally means “I'll see you off the shells that make me a shell”Poem and literature:“In the Shell-matching Game, some people do not notice what is in front of them but look around instead...… and so of course they lose the game when the shells before their eyes are claimed by other players.”Created