Welcome
to our online exhibit of the 2025 Year-of-the-Snake Etegami Call (ended
on February 1, 2025) brought to you by the Facebook group "Etegami Fun Club."
Although not restrictive as to materials or style, the tools of
traditional etegami are the ink brush, the coloring brush, gansai water
colors, sumi ink, and washi postcards. Brief words must accompany a
simple image to make it etegami. The traditional purpose of an etegami
is not so much to be displayed, as to be sent by post from a sender to a
receiver in a shared experience. Hence the name "e"= picture +
"tegami"= letter. The submissions were painted on 4 x 6 washi postcards,
and, for the purpose of the exhibit, placed in the paperboard frames
often used by senders or receivers of etegami to hang the work on their
walls. The artists' names and translation of accompanying words are
displayed above each work they submitted. The submissions are displayed in no particular order. (dosankodebbie: admin)
Submissions
Lisa Jastram, state of Texas US
(蛇が脱皮するように我々も過去を何度でも脱皮しなければならない）
Hideko Sonomura, Fukui prefecture JP (translation: Let's be friends forever and ever)
dosankodebbie, Hokkaido prefecture JP
(最高の一年に滑り込もう)
Fumiko Koga, Saga prefecture JP
(translation: Happy New Year 2025.)
Shay Niimi Wahl, state of Hawaii US
(サーフィンしながら2025年に入る）
dosankodebbie, Hokkaido prefecture JP
(初巳の出)
Jayne Heetderks, state of New York US
(隠れた賜物。愛の視線で2025年をみつめよう。）
dosankodebbie, Hokkaido prefecture JP
(星屑をつまむ蛇）
Fumiko Koga, Saga prefecture JP
(translation: Happiness is above the clouds, happiness is above the sky.)
dosankodebbie, Hokkaido prefecture JP
(迂回を恐れるな)
Dvorah Massa-Adachihara, Nice FRANCE
(2025年。これから何が？）
Karen Aigel Dinger, state of Pennsylvania US
(物語はいつも蛇から始まるようだ。新年おめでとう、出発おめでとう）
Shay Niimi Wahl, state of Hawaii US
(踊りながら2025年に入る）
This animal has long been regarded in Japan as an auspicious being that brings about good fortune and fertility.
Since snakes grow and repeatedly shed their skin, they are also
considered to be symbols of rebirth and resurrection, as well as
vitality, immortality, infinity and prosperity.
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