Title:
Universes in Collision
Alternate Titles:
Men and Women in 19th-Ceuntry Japanese Prints
Developer:
- Will Rourk
- New Media Center
- Stephen Margulies
- Johanna Bauman
- Digital Image Center
- Rusty Smith
Publisher:
- University of Virginia
- Bayly Art Museum
Source:
https://www.lib.virginia.edu/artsandmedia/artmuseum/
Tags:
- Educational
- Simulation
- 3D
- History
- Virtual World
Date Added:
1/22/2022, 10:16:15 PM
Date Modified:
4/26/2023, 9:28:17 PM
Notes:
Folders structure was changed from www.lib.virginia.edu/artsandmedia/artmuseum/* to www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/bayly/* to match with virtual gallery.
Original Description:
"In the beginning, woman was the sun." As the Japanese writer Hiratsuka Raicho noted in 1911, the origin and symbol of Japan is the sun-goddess. This eternally rising glory was perhaps incarnated in early Japanese history by powerful empresses, priestesses and female poets. Japan's greatest writer, the medieval novelist Murasaki Shikibu, was a woman whose genius combined Shakespearean might with Proustian refinement. Such a fusion of might and refinement characterizes much of the best of Japanese art and life. For swaggering machismo may tremble and weep with poetic sensitivity and female obedience be a treasure-house of steadfast integrity and courageous sincerity. Both swords and cherry blossoms are sacred emblems of fateful purity. Flower and sword: Which is purer? Which is stronger? All is duty - all passes like dew.
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