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Bleg: Name This Artist

By drorzel on December 15, 2007.

On our first day in Kyoto, Kate and I went to a bunch of temples, including one that was showing a bunch of really cool paintings featuring Buddhist temple accessories come to life and chasing monsters around. They had a sort of demented whimsy to them, and you can get a little flavor of it from the background images in this poster:

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Of course, neither of us can read a word of Japanese (well, that's not quite true-- I can spot the character for "temple" in the group at the upper left), so we have no idea what the artist's name is, or anything at all about the show.

I'm sure that somebody out there knows something more, or can at least read this poster. So, can anybody with an art background or Japanese language skills help a blogger out, here?

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it's talking about an exhibition of hundreds ghosts in some temple, no artist was mentioned on the posters.

Can you give more detail on the title of the exhibition? That might be Google-able, even if there isn't an artist's name.

(There's more text at the bottom of the poster, cropped out in this image, but when I blew it up, it's just dates and times, based on the formatting.)

Let me attempt to give you a literal translation of what the words on the poster reads, from the biggest words to the smallest.

Exhibition of The Night Parade of the Hundred Demons/Ghosts
Gao Tai Temple, Yuan De Garden
From 11th July to 31st August of the 19th Year of Ping Cheng

Artist Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toriyama_Sekien

Ping Cheng Year: Japanesse calendar
It actually means Years from the start of the dynasty of Ping Cheng.
The 1st year of Ping Cheng is be the start of the dynasty, and it happened in 1989.
In this case the exhibition is in the 19th year from the start of the Ping Cheng dynasty.
A simple calculation shows that 1989+19-1=2007 (I'm sure I don't have to explain why I had to make a subtraction of 1 in the calculations.)

Here you go!

Sorry I typed "...is be..."(line 9)! That was a typographical error. :)

Oh, and the typical Japanese romaji representation of the current (1989) era is "Heisei" (å¹³æ). "ping(2) cheng(2)" is the pinyin pronounciation of the characters in the Mandarin dialect.