miniature box: The year of the rabbit

The year of the rabbit / うさぎどし

 

The first match box I created this year.  

今年最初のマッチ箱。

miniature book: "冬のスケート /Skating in winter" (2021)

"冬のスケート / Skating in winter" (2021)

3.5cm x 5.0cm, 34pp, 

hardcover, 19 images

images from

"Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters" 

Hendrick Avercamp, 1608

 

miniature book: "The Rosary" (2021)

 

"The Rosary" (2021)

4.0cm x 5.0cm, 24pp, 

hardcover, 16 images

images from

"The Fifteen Mysteries 

and the Virgin of the Rosary"

Netherlandish Painter 

(possibly Goswijn van der Weyden, 

active by 1491, died after 1538)

ca. 1515–20, Netherlandish, 

Metropolitan Museum

Match Boxes created in Dec. 2021

Match Boxes Dec. 2021

2021年12月のマッチ箱 

above: "Crocodile Tears"

middle left: "Sacred Cherries"

middle right: "Stars and a bird"

below:"Skate in winter" 

(from "Ice-skating in a Village" 

by Hendrick Avercamp, c1610)

Match Boxes created in Nov. 2021

Match Boxes Nov. 2021

2021年11月のマッチ箱

above: "Authors"

below: "The Lion"

 

miniature book: “Blue”

“Blue” (2021)

4.9cm x 3.6cm, 34pp, hardcover, 17 images

Images from the 16th century book

 “Book of Flower Studies” 

Master of Claude de France, 

Metropolitan Museum

 

miniature book: “Tea Time” (2021)

“Tea Time” (2021)

5.0cm x 3.4cm, accordion book, 20 images

Images from the 19th century French Porcelain Designs

 

Match Boxes created in Aug. 2021

Match Boxes Aug. 2021

2021年8月のマッチ箱

above: "Bronzino 1 (Francesco I de' Medici)"

middle: "Bronzino 2 (Ritratto di Lodovico Capponi)"

below: "Bronzino 3 (Portrait of a Young Man)"

above: "The Choirs of Day"

middle: "la Balance"

below: "all old things"

 

miniature book: “Fireworks / 花火" (2021)

“Fireworks” 花火 (2021)

2.9cm x 6.3cm, accordion book, 24 images

3.0cm x 6.7cm(case)

all images from the illustrated catalogue of 

the Hirayama Fireworks co. (1877)

 

Match Boxes created in July 2021

Match Boxes July 2021

2021年7月のマッチ箱

left: "Gentleman 1" 

(portrait by Anna Clay poole Peale, 1832)

middle: "Gentleman 2" 

(portrait by John Wood Dodge, 1833)

right:"Gentleman 3" 

(portrait by Thomas Seir Cummings, 1840-45) 

 

Match Boxes created in June 2021

Match Boxes in June 2021 / 2021年6月のマッチ箱

above: "nocturnal secret"

below: "Giotto's Sky"

left: "Helvetia 1"

middle: "Helvetia 2"

right:"Helvetia 3"

images are from paintings by Marcus Dinkel

miniature book: “Chinese Opera Masks / 臉譜 (2021)

“Chinese Opera Masks” 臉譜

3.0cm x 4.3cm, accordion book, 42 images

3.6cm x 4.5cm(case)

40 mask designs from cigarette cards

 

miniature book: “London Head Dresses” (2021)

“London Head Dresses” (2021)

4.5cm x 6.0cm, softcover 6 sheets

illustrations by Richard Phillips, 1798 - 1806

from “Magazine of Female Fashions of London and Paris”

miniature book: “Swiss Fashion” (2021)

“Swiss Fashion” (2021)

3.5cm x 4.8cm, softcover 38pp

Illustrations by Gabriel Ludwig Lori (1763-1840)

Traditional costumes of Switzerland

 

Match Boxes created in May. 2021

Match Boxes May 2021

2021年5月のマッチ箱

above left: "In Memory"

below left: "Sure there was wine"

right: "no.213"

miniature book: 絣見本帖 /textile sampler (2021)

“絣見本帖 (textile sampler) ” 

(2021)

3.6cm x 3.0cm, softcover 7 samples

 

miniature book: 御菓子雛形/Wagashi designs (2021)

“御菓子雛形 (Wagashi designs)”

(2021)

4.4cm x 5.5cm, accordion 34pp

Wagashi designs from a book in edo era