Originally posted by Saintaw
Can someone please direct me? I'm either looking for prints or paintings (not animes)
Thank you.
British Museum (big on Japanese & Egyptian gear), the Louvre (a ways from Luxembourg, I know, but it has that Mona Lisa and the woman with no arms, and the French Impressionists were very into Japanese stuff), local art museum catalogues would be a good start.
I know nothing about japanese art other than the famous woodblock stuff - Ando Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai's famous waves. But here's a push off point for a a cut & paste google frenzy:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/japan/edo.html More modern stuff: no anime means that Hayao Miyazaki's "Kiki's Delivery Service" and "Spirited Away" are out — both feature witches. You could try the odd and slightly disturbing Yoshimoto Nara, who may well have his spooky little girls dressed up like witches here and there. But that's about it for my "Japanese witches in art" knowledge.
On the whole, though (while I'm not very clued up on Japanese culture specifically) witches are really a Western cultural idea tied-in with and promoted by Christianity, so the whole witch thing doesn't translate in Asia very well — they mostly have ghosts and demons covering the witch area. So pickings may be rather slim — it's a bit like asking for pictures of Belgian Samurai.
PS the bottom pic is Chinese, post Communist era judging by the PLA boots that girl's wearing. Inspirational characters read (though more poetically)- "The world is such a huge place, there's always something to work on."
