Photograph of a Botox center focusing on the large sign and green lawn out front. The artist writes, 'This is one of a series of images which aim to capture some aspect of irony or idiosyncratic in everyday life. They usually tell a story - or you can made one up. While content is of prime importance I try also to make the images formally interesting.'
Red silk cover embroidered with figures interacting in an outdoors setting. The four figures carry different items, such as a head piece and a vase with flowers.
A group of men stand next one another jovially. Three of them play with a tiger and her cub, two stand with a walking stick and a statue next to them. To the far left of the group, two men with dragons underneath them.
This is an 18th Century Qing Dynasty scroll that depicts six scenes that read from right to left. The first scene: Three luohans stand together in robes conversing, one holds a turquoise object in his hand. To the left, a third man stands with a large animal waiting.
An Immortal at the foot of a pine tree, attended by a servant with a ru-i scepter. Since he holds a pot from which curls the smoke of magic incense, he may be Li Tie-guai, legendary pupil of Lao Tze and Patron of Magic. The Immortal is summoning at the far end of his incense a bat-winged demon who bears, downward past the tree tops, two peonies, presumably for an Empress Immortal who sits in delighted anticipation before the Magician.
An Immortal seated in an attitude of royal ease, looking rearward over his right shoulder at a female immortal (perhaps He Xian-gu, Patroness of Housewives) hurrying leftward, her hands over her face, clutching a fly-whisk, under a group of trees
Imperial figure (perhaps Cao Guo-qui, relative of a 10th century Emperor and patron of actors) rising from the waves to extend his ru-i scepter toward another Immortal seated on a mossy knoll. The ocean-borne Immortal is followed by three attendants, one bearing a bronze tripod, one a sword, and one a tide-compelling jewel. The Immortal on the shores is served by two attendants, one a boy and the other a warrior.
Four Immortals crossing a stretch of stormy ocean. Two ride on a shark, one rides on a cow like monster, and the fourth rides on a white horse preceded by two demon attendants (one holding a ru-i, psychedelic fungus, scepter).
Representation of Immortal (perhaps Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller) riding in a sedan chair borne by four demons whom he has subdued. Ahead of him to the left a warrior with drawn sword (perhaps Zhong-li Chuan, Master of Change) lurks behind a shrub.
This is an 18th Century Qing Dynasty scroll that depicts seven scenes that read from right to left. Scene one: A four-clawed blue dragon rising from a stormy sea in the midst of terrified fishermen. Such a dragon is conceived as one of the vehicles on which men who follow Taoist teachings faithfully enough get carried off into immortality and eternal happiness on the Mystic Isles of the Eastern Sea, foremost of which is Peng Lai
A poem written in traditional Japanese calligraphy by a nationally acclaimed artist named Moriichi Kamagaya in 1978 when he was 97 years old. The work was most likely commissioned by the company and a certain number of copies were made to present to client PR associates. The poem as translated by Noa, reads: 'Kore yori Kisoji' - From here we enter Kisoji... Kisoji is the name of a famous road leading into the Kiso Mountain Range. Presumably this is where Mr. Murayama's lumber company is located. The paper included (in Japanese) a biography of the artist, Mr. Kamagaya.
