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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;georgeingraham, post: 2358744, member: 6261&quot;]Just to share.. </p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse painted picture on 9&quot; x 12 1/4&quot; glass showing three young Japanese ladies in kimono garments from the Meiji period (1868-1912) on the Kyobashi bridge which was first erected in 1879. </p><p><br /></p><p>Because of the Meiji period kimono garments and the bridge still in its original wood construction, this had to have been painted just before a great flood that washed it away in 1885. It is one of four hand carved wood panels that made up a lantern.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kyōbashi (京橋) is the name of a bridge as well as the geographical region around it. Two regions with this name exist in Japan, one is in Tokyo and one lies in Osaka. It refers to a bridge connecting roads to Kyoto.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse painting on glass is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image.</p><p><br /></p><p>These paintings can be realistic or abstract. Realistic reverse paintings like this one are more challenging to create as one must, for example, in painting a face, to put the pupil of an eye on the glass before the iris, exactly the opposite of normal painting. If this is neglected the artist will not be able to correct the error as they will not get in between the glass and the paint already applied.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/6Kdx6qJ.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/k4FQcNb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/KS3j73N.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/VHAzixq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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