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RedSamurai

@redsamurai

Current Resident of 🇯🇵🇹🇼🇬🇧 #Art | #Images | #Food | #Antiques | #Anecdotes | #UgokuUkiyoe | #Then&Now | #Here&There 🚫DMs 🚫IRL #fintech

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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

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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

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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.

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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🤷‍♂️

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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.

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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

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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

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

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

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Nice day here in Taipei, at Baoan Confucian Temple

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Nice day in London I see…

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