Wow! Rumiko Takahashi won a top prize from the equivalent of Oscar in France for manga & comics!
The prestigious Angouleme International Comics Festival .
France24 , JapanTimes and various media report that, too. Ms Takahashi looks beautiful.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/01/24/entertainment-news/cartoonist-rumiko-takahashi-wins-top-prize-french-comics-festival/
In Japan, it is an unwritten code of conduct to conform, not to standout, not to be different from others... Her stories often put the outsiders & "eccentrics" characters (and experiences) in forefront.
Inspirational!
I had watched the TV animation versions of some of her works,
“Ranma 1/2”, Urusei Yatsura” (or “Lum” ), “Mansion Ikkoku, Inuyasha.
Forigners, aliens(literally), mixed race...
Of course, the stories have been well-seasoned with
humour, jokes, love, adventures, naughty things, etc,
to deliver deeper meaningful things to young people and the young at heart.
Previously, I was writing about one of her influential work Inuyasha.
The link between the various metaphoric and esoteric concepts of light ...i
n the story and in the characters.
The names of the two leading ladies are star lights.
The precioys gem emit lights.
Virtues clear away darkness.
Light of the best of human nature.
Halo. Saintly light.
https://sn-uk.blogspot.com/2018/05/inuyasha-and-light.html
Light!
And I have just found out
the different meanings lost in translations over the past two millenniums...
hidden in the ancient Hebrew language and Aramaic language,
the original languages the sacred books were written.
https://www.chaimbentorah.com/015/06/word-study-light-noohra-aramaic-or-hebrew-אור-נהר
Translations via Greek, Latin, German, English, Chinese, Japanese...
are not as good as investicating the messages in original language(s).
With that information in that site,
the story of Daniel and
how he got the supernatural power and answers are clearer.
He asked God to give answers through dreams.
Now we can understand ancient wisdom esoteric teaching inside the books in Bible much better.
Seek light.
BTW,
Daniel eats plant-based diet, fast & pray alot.
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2019-01-24
2018-05-21
Inuyasha Kagome and Light
Not only an entertainment.
Watched the famous Japanese period drama time-travel fantasy saga
"Inuyasha" (animation version & 4 movies)
twice, many years apart.
Facing and overcoming the demon's evil cunning plots, temptations, illustions
which intended to cause doubts, fear, anger, hatre,
the leading female character Kagome,
relies on her ability to distinguish what is right and wrong,
sense of justice / righteousness,
the faith in victory for the justice & truth,
the love and faith/trust in family, friends, loved ones,
her pure heart, her faith, hope, love.
(In that story, many parties tried to snatch the enchanted jewel,
which is the combination of various virtues or power of human souls:
love, family/friendship, bravery, wisdom )
It (and our heart)...
~ is powerful; can be whole and can be shattered.
~ might be tainted/polluted, it can be purified.
Devil/demons often try to fight against God and try to oppress the Truth.
Whenever we get nearer to the Truth,
devils often try to to destroy/undermine our lives.
In English, there is a saying "heart of gold".
Golden heart?
A kind considerate loving heart.
The beauty of real gold...
pure, true, precious, shinny.
Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the LORD tests the heart.
Steel takes many many strokes to be refined and strenghtened.
When faced with adversities, many people easily cry out how poorly they are, even blaming God.
Maybe now we can try to see, life is like a do-jo, a place to practise a place for tests and examinations.
Light and darkness is often used as allegories for good and evil or truth and lie.
In Bible, we are told to shine and lit up the world.(Matthew 5:14-16)
There are simile and metaphor that "churches" are like well-lit lamp stands.
(and our bodies are temples)
There are crown of glory, crown of joy, crown of hope, crown of righteousness
Also we are told that we will get crown of glory.
Loving our God, following HIS teaching,
Loving our people,
let God and the Holy Spirit be with us,
facing and overcoming adversity/temptations/tests,
eventually we will get the crown of glory.
crown of light....
halo?
Getting it? How?
Given by God as reward?
Is it possible that
we eventually emit from ourselves from our heart the light?
In darkness, good to have light.
To find light?
The ability to see light?
Of course we can ask GOD to shine His light on us.
Yet, GOD also asked us to shine!
The light of hope,
The light of joy,
The light of love,
the light of truth,
the light of human souls,
the light of holyness...
The fruits of the Holy Spirit are:
love,
joy (gladness),
peace,
patience (an even temper, forbearance),
kindness,
goodness(benevolence),
faithfulness,
gentleness (meekness, humility),
self-control (self-restraint, continence).
(ref: Galatians5:22-23)
When we bear the fruits of the Holy Spirit,
be near to God, be like God,
we will have crown of glory ,
we will have light...
(note: in the story of Inuyasha,
the author designed the leading female character
to have the ability to sense/see the presence of the enchanted jewel,
and, the ability to purify it.
She also learned later in the story
how to merge tiny pieces of it into bigger ones. )
When faced with
temptations and trials,
will we become more like
heirs of GOD,
or,
puppets of devil?
AND, in the story, felt into a trap by the evil enemy,
Kagome was lost in a virtual reality typical daily life,
forgetting all about the stuff with Inuyasha,
the jewel and the friends, her mission and role.
She sensed vaguely something is not right.
She had to kept asking "who am I?"
Luckily with some help,
she remembered and woke up to her identity.
YES.
amidst temptation and plots to distract us or fool us ...
let us remember / relearn / find out
our true identities.
BTW,
Kagome's mother named her after 6 point star.
Kagome's previous life Kikyou means 5 point star.
And people know God's chosen people in Israel often show 6 point star - the star of David.
PS.
In our world,
there are people trying to share/teach/inspire us what and how-tos.
Not just the traditional ways of family teaching, textbooks or church sermons.
More likely , in stories, fictions, books, songs, TV, animations, movies, etc.
They might be under the cover of fantasy, sci-fi,
even magic or popular occult-like elements, etc.
For example,
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis.
That one has Christianity in it.
Media and outward elements is just something to get people's notice and interest.
Animation can be used to teach serious history, philosophy and Bible.
BTW, even "Cardcaptor Sakura" has interesting things in it.
Watched the famous Japanese period drama time-travel fantasy saga
"Inuyasha" (animation version & 4 movies)
twice, many years apart.
Facing and overcoming the demon's evil cunning plots, temptations, illustions
which intended to cause doubts, fear, anger, hatre,
the leading female character Kagome,
relies on her ability to distinguish what is right and wrong,
sense of justice / righteousness,
the faith in victory for the justice & truth,
the love and faith/trust in family, friends, loved ones,
her pure heart, her faith, hope, love.
(In that story, many parties tried to snatch the enchanted jewel,
which is the combination of various virtues or power of human souls:
love, family/friendship, bravery, wisdom )
It (and our heart)...
~ is powerful; can be whole and can be shattered.
~ might be tainted/polluted, it can be purified.
Devil/demons often try to fight against God and try to oppress the Truth.
Whenever we get nearer to the Truth,
devils often try to to destroy/undermine our lives.
In English, there is a saying "heart of gold".
Golden heart?
A kind considerate loving heart.
The beauty of real gold...
pure, true, precious, shinny.
Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the LORD tests the heart.
Steel takes many many strokes to be refined and strenghtened.
When faced with adversities, many people easily cry out how poorly they are, even blaming God.
Maybe now we can try to see, life is like a do-jo, a place to practise a place for tests and examinations.
Light and darkness is often used as allegories for good and evil or truth and lie.
In Bible, we are told to shine and lit up the world.(Matthew 5:14-16)
There are simile and metaphor that "churches" are like well-lit lamp stands.
(and our bodies are temples)
There are crown of glory, crown of joy, crown of hope, crown of righteousness
Also we are told that we will get crown of glory.
Loving our God, following HIS teaching,
Loving our people,
let God and the Holy Spirit be with us,
facing and overcoming adversity/temptations/tests,
eventually we will get the crown of glory.
crown of light....
halo?
Getting it? How?
Given by God as reward?
Is it possible that
we eventually emit from ourselves from our heart the light?
In darkness, good to have light.
To find light?
The ability to see light?
Of course we can ask GOD to shine His light on us.
Yet, GOD also asked us to shine!
The light of hope,
The light of joy,
The light of love,
the light of truth,
the light of human souls,
the light of holyness...
The fruits of the Holy Spirit are:
love,
joy (gladness),
peace,
patience (an even temper, forbearance),
kindness,
goodness(benevolence),
faithfulness,
gentleness (meekness, humility),
self-control (self-restraint, continence).
(ref: Galatians5:22-23)
When we bear the fruits of the Holy Spirit,
be near to God, be like God,
we will have crown of glory ,
we will have light...
(note: in the story of Inuyasha,
the author designed the leading female character
to have the ability to sense/see the presence of the enchanted jewel,
and, the ability to purify it.
She also learned later in the story
how to merge tiny pieces of it into bigger ones. )
When faced with
temptations and trials,
will we become more like
heirs of GOD,
or,
puppets of devil?
AND, in the story, felt into a trap by the evil enemy,
Kagome was lost in a virtual reality typical daily life,
forgetting all about the stuff with Inuyasha,
the jewel and the friends, her mission and role.
She sensed vaguely something is not right.
She had to kept asking "who am I?"
Luckily with some help,
she remembered and woke up to her identity.
YES.
amidst temptation and plots to distract us or fool us ...
let us remember / relearn / find out
our true identities.
BTW,
Kagome's mother named her after 6 point star.
Kagome's previous life Kikyou means 5 point star.
And people know God's chosen people in Israel often show 6 point star - the star of David.
PS.
In our world,
there are people trying to share/teach/inspire us what and how-tos.
Not just the traditional ways of family teaching, textbooks or church sermons.
More likely , in stories, fictions, books, songs, TV, animations, movies, etc.
They might be under the cover of fantasy, sci-fi,
even magic or popular occult-like elements, etc.
For example,
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis.
That one has Christianity in it.
Media and outward elements is just something to get people's notice and interest.
Animation can be used to teach serious history, philosophy and Bible.
BTW, even "Cardcaptor Sakura" has interesting things in it.
2018-04-09
simple meals in Winter
Different combinations of tricolor pasta, vegetables, seasonings, herbs & spices...
... chilli sesame oil, very good olive oil.
This 1st one is lazy.
The flavour come from the 5-bean ready pot.
For soup type,
Different herbs are added before serving.
Beans, fine raw carrot.
Sweet potatoes, butternut squash.
Asperagus tips are added before serving...
Veg salad. Olives.
Dessert drink ....
hopefully I can find
a plant-based version soon.
(That was bought months ago)
Some dishes above have
seaweed & Japanese miso soup
in them.
😄
And these are apart from
the many fruits I have eaten.
2017-03-03
2 galleries, 3 exhibitions
Went to see 2 art exhibitions in a gallery.
1) A Museum of Art
2) A Certain Kind of Light
That gallery mostly exhibit modern art works,
but this time, is a much waited change:
mostly old style artworks
from previous centuries & decades.
Credit: this photo by Rohan Van-Twest of some exhibits
There are pen & ink drawings, charcoal drawings, pencil drawings, oil paintings, watercolour paintings, prints, wood engraving, bronze sculpture, marble sculpture, alabaster sculpture, lead sculpture.
A portions of the paintings are in golden colour sculptured wooden frames.
Some frames look like art themselve...
and so old they have cracks.
There are two exhibitions both are free (donation,please).
The first one I went do not allow photography.
By chance, there is a young assistant curator Tom Laver doing a short guided talk.
( Hope he can try recording his talking and listen to it... and improve the tone)
For me, things that do make me want to talk are...
Giovanni Battista Lombardi, The Veiled Lady (1869)
(credit: this photo from Towner Gallery website)
- a marble sculpture of the bust of a lady veiled in thin lacey cloth without bra.
Kept locally.
Any more marble portraits in 21st century when people have all kinds of toys of different materials and even VR ...? But then, what materials can last longer?
- a few pieces of drawings & copper plate etchings/prints of elephant skull
by Henry Moore.
Still look forward to see his sculpture.
As with all other great artists, good to see their prepartion studies/drawings.
- a 16th century triptych painting(s) , Christian theme
by Henri Met de Bles.
Not my cup of tea but it is one of the few of this genre.
- big "map" paying tribute to the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi.
(Greyson Perry, Map of Nowhere, 2008)
Not my cup of tea but I do appreciate all his effort into making a big piece.
- a Japanese scenery by Japanese artist Tokitaro Hiroshige
(Ando Tokitaro Hiroshige, Swamps around Mount Fuji at Yoshiwara and view of the bay, 1855)
- tiny water colours by Robert Morris of Sussex landscape & seascape.
- fine art can not do without nudes, right?
A wall with different nude paintings, drawings, prints of different decades.
Mixed media:
IMHO, there look like some modern eye shadow make-up materials in the oil painting by Elizabeth Magill (2002)
For the 2nd exhibitions, A Certain Kind of Light...
Modern materials give rise to new experiments / expression of art.
(To me, modern art or philosophy or psychological games have thin lines between.)
Anish Kapoor's flat reflective stainless steel with special effects is interesting as visual experiment which could be put in a science museum.
Raphael Heft's Lycopodium photograph is a chemical experiment.
Peter Sedgley's PVA pigment of concentric circles
with some yellow, orangey red, green & purple, titled Corona (1970) only caught my eyes because I like circular things. Maybe back then flourocent colours were used but now not much interesting.
Ceal Floyer - Light(1994).
4 projectors focus on a non-lit lightbulb to make it as if it light up itself.
Katie Paterson Totality (2016) Mixed media. Installation...
nature... cosmology...
The ball full of thousands of tiny photos of the phases of moon!!!
When it rotates, the reflections around visitors are lovely.
IF the light of other room can be dimmer that would be eve more lovely.
Garry Fabian Miller... forcing enclosure 2011, Dye destruction print.... light, water...
(science? art? )
Cube of man. Shirazeh Houshiary (1992)
A tall column of stacked 6-sided wood pieces with some gold leaf and lead.(!)
And in the FuseBox room,
special installations for visitors young and old to have fun with light, reflections, mirrors...
(This piece hanging there changes colour gradually.)
Venue: Towner Gallery
2017 Feb.
Free entry but the gallery really appreciate donations.
It is good that the gallery has this free-to-visit policy to many of the exhibitions
for the public, so that art is not just for those who can afford expensive tickets.
Before that, on another day,
I also briefly visited the a small personal gallery at the back of a Grand Hotel.
Nigel Greaves is a graphic designer turned artist. He sells his work and make no reproductions in cards or other merchandise. Generally visually pleasing & interesting colours. "Graphic" based. His works will remind me if I were to venture into fine art, I must not stick with the graphic design way of thinking/presentation.
1) A Museum of Art
2) A Certain Kind of Light
That gallery mostly exhibit modern art works,
but this time, is a much waited change:
mostly old style artworks
from previous centuries & decades.
Credit: this photo by Rohan Van-Twest of some exhibits
There are pen & ink drawings, charcoal drawings, pencil drawings, oil paintings, watercolour paintings, prints, wood engraving, bronze sculpture, marble sculpture, alabaster sculpture, lead sculpture.
A portions of the paintings are in golden colour sculptured wooden frames.
Some frames look like art themselve...
and so old they have cracks.
There are two exhibitions both are free (donation,please).
The first one I went do not allow photography.
By chance, there is a young assistant curator Tom Laver doing a short guided talk.
( Hope he can try recording his talking and listen to it... and improve the tone)
For me, things that do make me want to talk are...
Giovanni Battista Lombardi, The Veiled Lady (1869)
- a marble sculpture of the bust of a lady veiled in thin lacey cloth without bra.
Kept locally.
Any more marble portraits in 21st century when people have all kinds of toys of different materials and even VR ...? But then, what materials can last longer?
- a few pieces of drawings & copper plate etchings/prints of elephant skull
by Henry Moore.
Still look forward to see his sculpture.
As with all other great artists, good to see their prepartion studies/drawings.
- a 16th century triptych painting(s) , Christian theme
by Henri Met de Bles.
Not my cup of tea but it is one of the few of this genre.
- big "map" paying tribute to the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi.
(Greyson Perry, Map of Nowhere, 2008)
Not my cup of tea but I do appreciate all his effort into making a big piece.
- a Japanese scenery by Japanese artist Tokitaro Hiroshige
(Ando Tokitaro Hiroshige, Swamps around Mount Fuji at Yoshiwara and view of the bay, 1855)
- tiny water colours by Robert Morris of Sussex landscape & seascape.
- fine art can not do without nudes, right?
A wall with different nude paintings, drawings, prints of different decades.
Mixed media:
IMHO, there look like some modern eye shadow make-up materials in the oil painting by Elizabeth Magill (2002)
For the 2nd exhibitions, A Certain Kind of Light...
Modern materials give rise to new experiments / expression of art.
(To me, modern art or philosophy or psychological games have thin lines between.)
Anish Kapoor's flat reflective stainless steel with special effects is interesting as visual experiment which could be put in a science museum.
Raphael Heft's Lycopodium photograph is a chemical experiment.
Peter Sedgley's PVA pigment of concentric circles
with some yellow, orangey red, green & purple, titled Corona (1970) only caught my eyes because I like circular things. Maybe back then flourocent colours were used but now not much interesting.
Ceal Floyer - Light(1994).
4 projectors focus on a non-lit lightbulb to make it as if it light up itself.
Katie Paterson Totality (2016) Mixed media. Installation...
nature... cosmology...
The ball full of thousands of tiny photos of the phases of moon!!!
When it rotates, the reflections around visitors are lovely.
IF the light of other room can be dimmer that would be eve more lovely.
Garry Fabian Miller... forcing enclosure 2011, Dye destruction print.... light, water...
(science? art? )
Cube of man. Shirazeh Houshiary (1992)
A tall column of stacked 6-sided wood pieces with some gold leaf and lead.(!)
And in the FuseBox room,
special installations for visitors young and old to have fun with light, reflections, mirrors...
Venue: Towner Gallery
2017 Feb.
Free entry but the gallery really appreciate donations.
It is good that the gallery has this free-to-visit policy to many of the exhibitions
for the public, so that art is not just for those who can afford expensive tickets.
Before that, on another day,
I also briefly visited the a small personal gallery at the back of a Grand Hotel.
Nigel Greaves is a graphic designer turned artist. He sells his work and make no reproductions in cards or other merchandise. Generally visually pleasing & interesting colours. "Graphic" based. His works will remind me if I were to venture into fine art, I must not stick with the graphic design way of thinking/presentation.
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