HOKUSAI Swallow iPhone case
KARASHI color
| model | price | ||
| iPhone 6 | $44.95 | Buy from Zazzle | |
| iPhone 6plus | $50.95 | Buy from Zazzle | |
| iPhone 5/5S | $44.95 | Buy from Zazzle | |
| iPhone 5c | $44.95 | Buy from Zazzle |
HOKUSAI (北斎)
Hydrangea & swallow
This swallow picture is a part of HOKUSAI’s famous work “Hydrangea & swallow (紫陽花に燕)”. "Hydrangea & swallow" is also one of famous paint series "Flowers & Birds (花鳥画)".
HOKUSAI
Hydrangea & swallow
Hydrangea and swallow is seasonal symbol of early summer in Japan. In Japan early summer is rainy season called "Tsuyu (梅雨)". So hydrangea reminds people of humid atmosphere and cloudy sky.
Japanese hydrangea
At the end of swallow breeding season, rainy season "Tsuyu" also come to an end and midsummer come.
There is famous proverb in Japan
"It will rain when swallows are flying low".
HOKUSAI painted dynamically the season and humid atmosphere just before start raining by drawing hydrangea and low flying swallow.
Flying swallow
Japanese traditional color
KARASHI
KARASHI means mustard and KARASHI color is the color of mustard.
It is a little greenish yellow color.
KARASHI RENKON
Lotus root with Japanese mustard paste
This color became Japanese traditional color in modern history. Recently some of Japanese car is painted with this color.
| model | price | ||
| iPhone 6 | $44.95 | Buy from Zazzle | |
| iPhone 6plus | $50.95 | Buy from Zazzle | |
| iPhone 5/5S | $44.95 | Buy from Zazzle | |
| iPhone 5c | $44.95 | Buy from Zazzle |