Etegami (e= "picture"; tegami= "letter/message") are simple drawings accompanied by a few apt words. They are usually done on postcards so that they can be easily mailed off to one's friends. Though etegami has few hard-and-fast rules, traditional tools and materials include writing brushes, sumi ink, blocks of water-soluble, mineral-based pigments called gansai, and washi postcards that have varying degrees of "bleed." They often depict some ordinary item from everyday life, especially items that bring a particular season to mind.
How do you come up with these?? Very cute, and yes, out of the ordinary!
ReplyDeleteSuch a wonderful card with the shrimps though not for my half who don't like anything coming out of the sea... :-)
ReplyDeleteVery nice, Debbie, especially the shrimps.
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