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2005. Oil on
canvas. 40x50cm.
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The Circle of Rice and the Sun
Kei-Ichiro and Akiko Inaba, the sitters of this portrait, are
from Japan. As a tribute to their nationality, their faces are
inscribed in the circle of the beautiful Japanese flag. In the
Japanese language the flag is called "Hinomaru" which means
"circle of the sun", therefore Akiko's hair resembles the
sunbeams.
Kei-Ichiro, as though he were a modern shogun, is crowned with
a small rice plant, in the fashion of a laurel-crowned Caesar.
His family name, Inaba, in fact means "rice leaf". |
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