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gurdymonkeyFine, they're COMPLETELY out of period for the SCA, but they are gorgeous and I was thrilled to find images of them in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' collection. They also are unlikely survivors of time, being, well, paper lanterns, (particularly given the rather shabby state of the ones I bought at Cost Plus less than two years ago). Two hundred years old, I first saw these at the Drama and Desire exhibit of Edo period paintings at the Asian Art Museum.
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=204025 and http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=203969
According to this article from the Japan Times, these paintings came to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1911, having been removed from their original lantern frames and pasted onto scroll papers. Extensive restoration returned them to the shape they were originally intended to be seen in. One can only imagine what these must have looked like when lit from within!
(Also of note, the wonderful painted banner shown in the article of Zhong Qui, the famous Chinese queller of demons who bears a distinct resemblance to a certain Bushi from the Outlands.)
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=204025 and http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=203969
According to this article from the Japan Times, these paintings came to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1911, having been removed from their original lantern frames and pasted onto scroll papers. Extensive restoration returned them to the shape they were originally intended to be seen in. One can only imagine what these must have looked like when lit from within!
(Also of note, the wonderful painted banner shown in the article of Zhong Qui, the famous Chinese queller of demons who bears a distinct resemblance to a certain Bushi from the Outlands.)
