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Kazuo SHIRAGA”The Water Margin Hero Series”天立星双鎗将　Tenritusei Kososho   1964

Wonted！

天立星双鎗将　Tenritusei Kososho   1964

序列15　Order15   薫平　Dong Ping

序列15位と高く、両手に槍を持って戦うのを得意とする。

風流双槍将と呼ばれ武芸だけではなく礼教・学問・管弦にも通じていた。

文武両道のキャラクターは白髪が好みでは。おそらく素晴らしい作品だと想像するばかり。片鱗の資料も残されていない。残念です。

It is as high as 15th place  and is good at fighting with a spear in both hands.

He was familiar with not only martial arts but also courtesy, learning, and music.

I think this character is probably someone who likes Siraga, so I think it’s a wonderful work. No material is left. I’m sorry!

天勇星大刀 　Tenyusei Daito　　1964　

天勇星大刀 　Tenyusei Daito　　1964

栃木県立美術館蔵　TOCHIGI PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF FINE ART

序列５ order 5  関勝 Kaneyo

関勝は関羽のような見事な髭を持つ屈指の猛将を彷彿させる堂々たる作品。

A majestic work reminiscent of one of the best warlords with a beautiful beard like kANU.

天傷星行者　Tenshosei Gyoja  1960 

天傷星行者　Tenshosei Gyoja  1960 

尼崎市蔵

序列14　Order14　 武松 Wu Song

大酒飲みの大男、虎退治で名をなすが、兄嫁の不貞で殺人を犯し一転罪人となる。誤送役人を返り討ちにしてさらなる罪を重ね梁山泊入りする。入山後は一代勢力を築き貢献するが最後の戦いで片腕を無くし寺男として天寿を全うした。

〜わしの酒飲みは＜水滸伝＞の影響や〜水滸伝の好漢は皆大酒飲みです。白髪さんも負けずの酒豪、オールドパー、紹興酒がお好きでした。二人の酒豪が格闘しているようなど迫力のある作品です。

Wu Song laved liquor very much. He became famous by tiger extermination. 

But he became criminal in the affair of his brother-in-law.

Kill the escort officer, commit a further crime and headed the Ryozanpaku.

After entering the mountain, he made a great contribution. 

In the final battle, he lost his arm and completed his life, at a temple.

~My liquor lover was the influence of the Water Margin Hero series~The heroes of the Water Margin Hero series loved liquor.

Shiraga also loved sake, Old Par, and Shaoxing sake. 

It is a powerful work like the battle of two heavy drinkers.

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“asobi”＜あそび＞って一体なんでしょうか？

古来日本文化には～遊びをせんとや生れけむ、戯れせんとや生れけん、遊ぶ子供の声きけば、我が身さえこそ動がるれ～梁塵秘抄（りょうじんひしょう）や禅語「遊心」が風流＝芸術の根底にあります。
西洋ではホイジンガの「ホモ・ルーデンス」という遊戯が人間活動の本質であり、文化を生み出す根源だと思想があります。
私には三人の赤ん坊を育てた臨床体験が鮮明に脳裏に刻みこまれています。乳に満ち足り、寝足りた赤ん坊の行為ですがそれはそれは好奇心に溢れています。手足で遊んだり、触れるものは何でも口に持っていったり、触覚、視覚、聴覚をフル回転して一時の休みもなく遊んでいます。ハイハイができるようになるとその好奇心は一段と高まり、その好奇心により運動能力が発達していく様に見えます。
この好奇心こそ人間の本質であり asobiではないでしょうか？

さて前書きが長くなりましたが、その狙いは私の 密やかな asobiを正当化するための方便でもあるのです。
寛仁大度な作家さま方が私の“asobi”に目くじらたてられないことを願っての、

ところで、今私が目にしている作品はかってはあなたの胎内から産み出されたものですね。安産であったか、七転八倒の難産であったかはわかりませんが産み出された作品はもう一つの独立した人格？というか画格を持った生命体として存在しているのです。
そして見る者の心に生命の輝きを点火させ、時空を超えて生命のエネルギーを放出し続けるのです。
もうそれは産みの親である作家さんの圏外の事象なのです。
感動された時、もうその人のPersonal possessionになるのですから。
感動するとは一体どういうことでしょうか？
それは見者の内にある感性が呼び覚まされる、そして共鳴することではないでしょうか。見者の未窟の鉱脈を探り当てる歓喜と奏でる協奏曲こそ至宝の asobi ではないでしょうか？

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Asobi

References to play abound in Japanese culture passed down over the centuries. Good examples include one of the Ryojin-hisho* songs, “We are all born to play, born to have fun. When I hear the voices of children playing, my old body still responds, wanting to join in,” and the Zen word, Yushin/Asobi-gokoro (A playful mind/Playfulness). Such references indicate that play (asobi) is one of the foundations of art and the popular arts. Similar ideas can be seen in the West, such as Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (or Playing Man), which discussed the importance of play as an essential element in human activity and the origin of culture.

The experience of nursing and rearing my three children is vividly imprinted on my mind. Babies who had plenty of breast milk and sufficient sleep were absolutely brimming with curiosity. They played constantly, with their senses of touch, sight, and hearing in high gear, playing with their hands and feet, and putting anything they touched in their mouths. Once they started crawling, their curiosity went up another gear, seeming to drive the development of their physical abilities and motor skills. This curiosity is surely the essence of humanity, the manifestation of Asobi-gokoro or playful mind.

Please forgive the lengthy introduction, which largely serves to justify my own furtive play. I hope my playing will not overtax the artists’ generosity and compassion. You know, the artwork that I am now looking at has come forth from your womb. I don’t know if it was an easy delivery or an excruciatingly painful, difficult delivery, but now that it is done, the work that you gave birth to exists as a separate entity with its own independent character and its own life.

That entity sparks the fire of life in the hearts of viewers, triggering the ongoing emission of life energy that will transcend time and space. What happens is already outside the control of the artist who gave birth to it. When your art moves someone emotionally, that experience becomes his or her personal possession.

What does it mean to move someone? Surely it means stirring the viewer’s emotions and resonating inside him or her.Performing a ‘concerto’ that resounds with the joy of discovering an untouched vein of something precious inside the viewer is surely the most treasured form of play.

*Ryojin-hisho (Songs to Make the Dust Dance on the Beams): a folk song collection compiled by Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa in the end of Heian period. (12th century)

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