ÿþ<html><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>DANIEL MITSUI ~ GREETING CARDS</title> <style type="text/css"> .style1 {font-family: Times; font-size: 40px; color: #aaaaaa;} .style2 {font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; color: #aaaaaa;} </style> </head><body leftmargin="150" rightmargin="150" topmargin="100" text="#aaaaaa" vlink="#aaaaaa" bgcolor="#000000" link="#aaaaaa" marginheight="100" marginwidth="150"><header></header> <center> <span class="style1">GREETING CARDS<br>by DANIEL MITSUI</span><br> <span class="style2">danmitsui [at] hotmail [dot] com<br><br><a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/">return to main page</a></span></center> <br><br><br> All of the cards displayed here are 5" x 7". The insides are blank. The prices include plain white envelopes for the cards; they do not include shipping. <br><br>Discounts are available for retailers and for customers buying 50 or more cards. E-mail me to place an order. <br><br><hr><br> <center><a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/bookplates/easter_card.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/thumbs/bookplates/thumb_easter_card.jpg" alt="IMAGE"></a> <br><br> <em>Click above for a larger image.</em> </center> <br><br>The Resurrection. Christ steps from the open tomb with His right foot, raising his hand in blessing and carrying a triumphal banner. Angels bearing torches and censers surround Him, while the soldiers of the guard sleep. Flanking this image are pictures of the Descent into Limbo and of Christ's appearance to Mary Magdalene. <br><br> In the corners are four animals associated with the Resurrection in mediaeval bestiaries: a lion (which raises his cubs from the dead after three days); a pelican (which feeds it chicks with blood from a self-inflicted wound); a phoenix (which rises from its own ashes); and a whale vomiting the prophet Jonah (<i>As Jonah was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.</i>). <br><br>The Latin text is from a Paschal sequence by Adam of St. Victor: <br><br><center> Lux illuxit Dominica,<br> Lux insignis, lux unica, <br> Lux lucis et laetitiae, <br> Lux immortalis gloriae.<br> <br> Diem mundi conditio.<br> Commendat ab initio, <br> Quam Christi resurrectio. <br> Ditavit privilegio. <br><br> The Lord's own day hath poured its rays,<br> That glorious light, the day of days;<br> The light of light and joy, the day<br> Whose glory passeth not away.<br> <br> This day the world's foundations laid<br> Distinguish, since the world was made;<br> On which Christ's rising from the dead<br> Hath new peculiar glory shed. </center> <br><br>Letterpress printing was used for this project, which is an especially beautiful and traditional method (essentially the same used by Gutenberg). Because the ink is impressed into the paper from a copper plate, the image on the card has a textured surface and greater visual definition. Letterpress printing, which requires considerable craftsmanship, nearly disappeared in the early 20th century, but has been revived by artisan presses in recent decades. <br><br>The cards are printed on thick beige cardstock, with sepia colored ink. Each is individually signed on the back. <br><br>$5 each <br><br> <center> <a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/bookplates/easter1.jpg"><img border="0" alt="IMAGE" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/bookplates/thumb_easter1.jpg"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/bookplates/easter2.jpg"><img border="0" alt="IMAGE" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/bookplates/thumb_easter2.jpg"></a> </center> <br><br><hr><br> <center><a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/bookplates/card10.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/thumbs/bookplates/thumb_card10.jpg" alt="IMAGE"></a> <br><br> <em>Click above for a larger image.</em> </center> <br><br>Illuminated <i>Gloria in Excelsis Deo</i> text with an historiated initial of the Annunciation to the Shepherds. The original drawing was done with colored inks and gold leaf on Bristol board. <br><br>The cards are digitally printed in color on white cardstock. <br><br>$2 each <br><br><hr><br> <center> <a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/bookplates/jesse.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/thumbs/bookplates/thumb_jesse.jpg" alt="IMAGE"></a> <br><br> <em>Click above for a larger image.</em> </center> <br><br>The Tree of Jesse, a symbolic image representing the lineage of Christ. Christ is atop the family tree, surrounded by seven doves representing the gifts of the Holy Ghost. Below Him are Mary, their ancestor David, and a sleeping Jesse, from whose side the tree sprouts. The Latin text at the bottom is <i>Egredietur virga de radice Jesse</i>, meaning <i>There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse</i>. <br><br> Flanking this image are twelve prophets of the Incarnation holding banderoles with their prophecies. These are the from the mediaeval Christmas Eve liturgy of the <i>Processus Prophetarum</i>: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Moses, David, Habakkuk, Simeon, Elizabeth, John the Baptist, Virgil, Nebuchadnezzar and the Eritrean Sibyl. <br><br>The cards are digitally printed in black ink on white cardstock. <br><br>$2 each <br><br><br><center> <span class="style2">all works (c) Daniel Mitsui<span> </center></body></html>