Went to the Modern Meiji exhibition at The Asia Society in NYC a few weeks back and this embroidered (EMBROIDERED!!!) screen haunts me. It's about 6' tall and it's silk embroidery (over 250 shades of thread!!) on undyed silk. I thought it was a painting until I was close enough to se the threads.

Wow

1915!

Absolutely incredible

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Phenomenal 🔥

There are so many creative fields where I think I’ve seen the limits of human ingenuity, and then the Japanese come along: ‘Hold my beer’

Un ‐ be - liev - able Would very much like to see that with my own two eyes

Insert the "no fear -> one(1) fear" meme here what even

Hoooooly shit

Wow -this is phenomenal!