How much wood would a … a peacock?
Was having a bit of a troll around Yahoo auction to see what I could see when I stumbled upon this beauty. The asking price - a mere 6,000,000 yen. Admitedly, no one has yet to bid on the bird, but that 6 million yen works out to a mind wibbling US$51.689.86. That is enough money to buy a lot of bird feed I would wager.
Carved from a single piece of wood one would imagine that a great deal of time and perspiration went into its creation. Still it doesn’t really speak to me as a work of art. That line is such a fine and fuzzy thing. The swords that my friend Pierre is into, and learning to make, I can see as beautiful, even if I don’t understand them that deeply and am not drawn to them as strongly as he is.
Sometimes watching Japanese television can be revealing. Television as the expression of the dreams and aspirations of a populus. Television as a mirror to the (shopping) soul of a nation. Recently we saw a program which took us around the homes of some of Japan’s ‘other’ half. One image that stuck in my mind - that of the President of a construction company talking about the ‘gorgeous’ house he lived in as he stood on a polar bear rug. Some things are common throughout humanity in all its flavors - and bad taste is one of them.
If it rocks your boat then you can check out the auction here; it closes in 3 days so you will have to move quickly!
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