Cerulean
100 Poets farewell as a 'tarot'
The finished scrapbook I made became an oracle book that took on it's own life and I can see that for myself, this will not become a tarot any time soon. I adore it, but looking at something as good to me as the Ukiyoe Tarot, I realized that it's focus on the Edo period was quite right--a narrower focus on a certain time and space actually helps.
The 100 Poets series has the seasonal poetry and evocative imagery, but I'll revisit the motifs in a different way.
Whoever does translate their experience of such cultural enjoyments into a tarot, I'll be a fan most likely...having realized every small forey into this uncovers so much for me.
What would work instead..after exploring my Shinto matsuri (festivals), my biwa music studies, the poetic highways and happily touching the shimmering surface of thousands of years of history of the gods...perhaps a post-Meiji-era and a truer-to-Hana Fuda seasonal homage to matsuri and the addition of shell oracle personifications the seven lucky gods--for they themselves are looked at today as personifications of traits some would enjoy...they have travelled through time and the Asian continent to Japanese folklore.
I'll start a new thread and gathered links, refering to this old thread as my 'first experiment'
I really enjoyed adding to this thread...speaking of gods and monsters and ghosts and things that go bump in the night...
Best regards,
Cerulean
The finished scrapbook I made became an oracle book that took on it's own life and I can see that for myself, this will not become a tarot any time soon. I adore it, but looking at something as good to me as the Ukiyoe Tarot, I realized that it's focus on the Edo period was quite right--a narrower focus on a certain time and space actually helps.
The 100 Poets series has the seasonal poetry and evocative imagery, but I'll revisit the motifs in a different way.
Whoever does translate their experience of such cultural enjoyments into a tarot, I'll be a fan most likely...having realized every small forey into this uncovers so much for me.
What would work instead..after exploring my Shinto matsuri (festivals), my biwa music studies, the poetic highways and happily touching the shimmering surface of thousands of years of history of the gods...perhaps a post-Meiji-era and a truer-to-Hana Fuda seasonal homage to matsuri and the addition of shell oracle personifications the seven lucky gods--for they themselves are looked at today as personifications of traits some would enjoy...they have travelled through time and the Asian continent to Japanese folklore.
I'll start a new thread and gathered links, refering to this old thread as my 'first experiment'
I really enjoyed adding to this thread...speaking of gods and monsters and ghosts and things that go bump in the night...
Best regards,
Cerulean
