Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 119890
Cats of Cosmic Sound
- Artist / 作者
- Inagaki Tomoo稲垣知雄
- Date / 年代
- 1973
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Showa / artelino
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1105 × 1400 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Artelino
- Published by / 公開者
- 朝倉レン
- Rights / 権利
- All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
- Attribution / 表記
- Artelino
Catalog note / 解説
"A'un no Neko" Green version. The "A-Un" is an unique concept in Japanese Buddhism which represent the particular cosmic sounds. The sound of "ah" which one must open his/her mouth to utter, means "the beginning" and "birth". Its counter-partner is the sound of "Un" or "Om" which means "the end" or "death". "Ah" is also the first letter and "Un" is the last letter in the Sanskrit and Japanese alphabets. This combination symbolically represents all possible outcomes (from alpha to omega) in the universe.
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