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The print by the Japanese artist Hokusai that may have inspired this picture, Turban-shell Hall of the Five-Hundred-Rakan Temple (1830), [3] remains today at Monet's house-museum at Giverny. [4] The elevated vantage point and relatively even sizes of the horizontal areas emphasize the two-dimensionality of the painting.
The common name turban snail presumably refers to the shell's similarity in appearance to a turban. However, the scientific name Turbinidae is based on the genus name Turbo, which is Latin for spinning top, a child's toy. The word turbine has a similar derivation.
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The scientific name Turbo cornutus, literally means "horned turban," and it is characterized by a hard, ventricose, spiny, imperforate shell of which the length varies between 65 and 120 mm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 and 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in). It has a large, thick, green-gray shell with irregular incremental striae and spiral lirae.
Turbo cornutus, common name the "horned turban", is an expensive food item in Korea, and Japan, where they are known as sazae. [ citation needed ] The attractively colored operculum of at least two different Turbo species has been used for various decorative purposes, including in jewelry and buttons .
Five Hundred Arhats (五百羅漢図) is a set of 100 hanging scrolls created between 1854 and 1863, the year Kazunobu's death. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The work depicts one hundred scenes from the lives of five arhats , disciples of the Buddha .
The temple stands on the mountainside of Mt. Rakan, the rocky cliff of which has countless mouths of caves. The main gate and the main hall stand directly in the rocky cliff. In the caves, over 3,700 stone Buddhas are enshrined. The temple was established in 1337, but it was destroyed by fire in 1943. The present main hall was reconstructed in ...
The Five Mountains and Ten Monasteries System (五山十刹制度, Chinese: Wushan Shicha, Japanese: Gozan Jissetsu Seido) system, more commonly called simply Five Mountain System, was a network of state-sponsored Chan (Zen) Buddhist temples created in China during the Southern Song (1127–1279). The term "mountain" in this context means ...