Art Blog #38

Let's take a look at some art - 'Kitsune Girl' by Harumi Hironaka and the symbolism of Kitsune

Art Details:

'Kitsune Girl'

Limited Edition Print of 50

Harman Matt Cotton Smooth 300m/g 100% Cotton Hand Signed, Stamped with original chops and Numbered

Size 8.3"x11.7" approx.. Plus border

Comes with certificate of authenticity

Framed

About the Artist

Harumi Hironaka is a Peruvian-Japanese painter and illustrator currently living and working in Sao Paulo. She lived her teenage years in Japan, where she was influenced by Anime and Manga: ¨that’s how it all started. I wanted to become a manga artist¨.

'It’s difficult to find any piece you don’t absolutely love in Harumi Hironaka’s body of work.

These wild, sensual, tough women invite you to find those wolves that reside in your psyche. Representing strength and a fierce determination, her works hit you like a lightning bolt. I get a sense that Harumi isn’t afraid, and in fact, welcomes a more uncomfortable visual.

Why not throw the fatalities of love and suffering, the ecstasy and eroticism, and playful gestures into the faces of those that can handle the imagery.

We don’t just take it on board, we love it!

We know these women and they live inside even the meekest of us'

Kitsune

The kitsune in popular Japanese tradition, are foxes or fox spirits that possess paranormal abilities such as shapeshifting, and capable of bewitching people.

Kitsune, though literally a 'fox', becomes in folklore a 'fox spirit', or perhaps a type of yōkai.

They are ascribed with intelligence, magical or supernatural powers, especially so with long-living foxes.

The archetypal method by which the kitsune tricks humans is to lead them astray, or make them lose their way.

The experiences of people losing their way (usually in the mountain after dark) and blaming the kitsune fox has been recounted first or second-hand to folklorists well into the present times

Foxes and Humans

Foxes and humans lived close together in ancient Japan this companionship gave rise to legends about the creatures.

The oldest relationship between the Japanese people and the fox dates back to the Jomon period necklace made by piercing the canine teeth and jawbone of the fox.

Wikipedia