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View of Sanjūsangen-dō in Kyoto 🇯🇵 (京都 三十三間堂 景) Artist: Sadahide Date: 1850 I always visit this temple when in Kyoto, containing 1,000 individually styled statues (Yes counted them, pictures forbidden) Seems Then it was painted red, Now bare wood below #UgokuUkiyoe

Title: Night Snow at Kambara Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Date: 1833 Considered one of Hiroshige’s landscape masterpieces, this evocative print captures travelers trudging uphill through impossibly deep drifts in a completely frozen village. #UgokuUkiyoe

Shibaura at dawn, Tokyo🇯🇵 Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Date: 1856 Shibaura, my current home, was a Edo-period fishing harbour. Here, just before the Meiji era's massive land reclamation projects. Hiroshige’s signature black-headed gulls populated the area, as they still do today.

Vengeance at Ganryū Island Artist: Kuniyoshi Date: 1856 Depicts the 1612 duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojirō, on the shores of Ganryū Island. Musashi (leaping mid-air) defeats him with a wooden practice sword that he carved out of a spare boat oar on the way over.

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🧵#1of2 - Then & Now: Great Buddha at Kamakura 🇯🇵 Then 1916 - Charles W. Bartlett. A🇬🇧artist who travelled to 🇯🇵 Now - Spent over decade visiting various locations in 🇯🇵 to take photographs that match my art collection. Seems now I need to revisit and make the video versions…well ok🤷‍♂️

Animated version of Yasui’s 1884 Ginza night scene. The “interesting” error illustrates the limitations of my current compute. Planning to upgrade the kit in July, so should improve significantly then.

Title: Illustration of the Fierce Attack on Kumamoto Castle Date: 1877 Artist: Toshinobu The equivalent of breaking news. Contemporaneously published with this Satsuma Rebellion event, it captures the siege of the castle in real-time for a public hungry for updates #UgokuUkiyoe

Title : Geisha at Yanagibashi Year : 1890 Artist : Chikanobu This depicts a gathering of the district's top geisha for the Hatsu geiko, the very first formal arts and dance lesson of the New Year. #UgokuUkiyoe

Title : Chushingura, fulfilling their vow Year : 1848 Artist : Sadahide One of my older colour prints, the 47 Ronin night attack. #UgokuUkiyoe

Trying something new… Title: Brick Hall of Foreign Countries at Yokohama 🇯🇵 Year: 1898 Artist : Ikumaru

Nice day here in Taipei, at Baoan Confucian Temple

Nice day in London I see…