Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

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Original – A 17th century print showing the baby Princess Kaguya shortly after being discovered inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant, near the beginning of the The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Reason

High resolution, attractive image.

Articles in which this image appears

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Japanese folktales

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/East Asian art and Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations both work

Creator

Unknown

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:28, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
• Weak support The borders seem to be cropped slightly more compared to the Metmuseum source (particularly, the left border). Since the borders aren't perfectly straight, the small pieces of background left after an accurate crop, may be just turned black, as on some other featured paintings. Brandmeister^talk 08:54, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
  • The one we have is the one that the MET made available at the time I uploaded. I wouldn't crop works of art, at least not as hack a job as that. I can crop a bit further if you want. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:29, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
    • Maybe MET has updated the source since then. Compare, for example, the thin white tree on the left in the source, which is barely visible here. Brandmeister^talk 10:35, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
      • I'm pretty sure it's been updated, because I don't remember there being seventy-five scans to download when I went through this. Sadly the Met's "full size" isn't working for me, and I'm afraid I don't see the tree you mention. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:45, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
• Comment about description. Maybe I am being stupid somehow, but I see nothing resembling "the discovery of baby Princess Kaguya inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant". 86.179.112.79 (talk) 11:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Sorry, my mistake. Fixed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:45, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
    • So is the "baby" the thing in the basket? That posture looks very unlike that of a baby to me, but more like that of a young child. Also, she was the size of a thumb when she was found, so I wonder whether this really can be "shortly after"? 86.179.112.79 (talk) 17:26, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:59, 22 August 2014 (UTC)