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2007-08-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mike 2007-08-26 09:35|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Wow!

Posted by gromgoru 2007-08-26 11:20|| 2007-08-26 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Outstanding!

Here are links to the original images:

Under the Wave of Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki namimura), by Hokusai, which happens to be one of my all-time favorite Asian artworks.

Wind God and Tunder God, by Sotatsu.

Otani Oniji II, by Toshusai Sharaku.

Reflective Love, by Utamaro.

As always, doing a search like this is its own reward. Here is another incredible image that may be from Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" or his "Fifty Three Stages of the Tokaido". Either way, if they can do this one in rice paddy art it would be another verdant masterpiece.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-26 15:29|| 2007-08-26 15:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Oops, I left out a link to Hokusai's Gaifu Kaisei from "Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji", which appears to the right of "Under the Wave of Kanagawa" in the article's photos.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-26 15:57|| 2007-08-26 15:57|| Front Page Top

#4 thanks Zen - my son (and friends) climbed Mt Fuji last month - said it was beautiful...

the rice art is wayyyy better than crop circles

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-08-26 16:50|| 2007-08-26 16:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank, you are most welcome. Please accept my congratulations for encouraging your children to see this incredible world that surrounds us. Never in my entire life have I ever doubted that travel is the single finest investment of personal funds.

As America's Bard once said:

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness ... Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Mark Twain

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-26 20:07|| 2007-08-26 20:07|| Front Page Top

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