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アメみ ❖ amai

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「アイス食べる？」
過去絵（２０１９）
#FGO #FateGrandorder #AbigailWilliams #KatsushikaHokusai #Foreigner

November 3, 2024 at 12:44 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

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#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849)
The Amida Falls In The Far Reaches of the Kisokaido Road ca.1832
#japanese #woodblock

August 8, 2024 at 9:37 PM

Pictures of the Floating World

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#KatsushikaHokusai
(1760-1849) Tiger in the Snow (1849)
#Ukiyo-e

April 22, 2024 at 4:37 PM

Pictures of the Floating World

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#KatsushikaHokusai 1760-1849
A fisherman standing on a rocky promontory at Kajikazawa
36 views of mt fuji
#japanese #woodblock

July 25, 2024 at 5:59 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

@floatingworlds.bsky.social

#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849)
Ghost of murdered husband peeping over mosquito-net at his unfaithful and murderous wife

July 12, 2024 at 5:55 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

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#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849)
Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji: Fuji Viewed from Gotenyama at Shinagawa on the Tokaido Highway
#japanese#woodblock

June 5, 2024 at 5:20 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

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#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849)
Travelers surprised by a sudden breeze in Ejiri, (1830-1832)
#Engraved #Ukiyo-e #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt, New York

September 1, 2024 at 11:14 PM

Pictures of the Floating World

@floatingworlds.bsky.social

#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849)
A Fisherman Standing on a Rocky Promontory at Kajikazawa in Kai Province
Series: 36 Views of Mt.Fuji, published ca.1830-31
#japanese #woodblock

June 15, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

@floatingworlds.bsky.social

#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849).
"Fuji to fue fuki warabe zu" (A young boy gazing at Fuji mount while playing flute).
#woodblock #japanese

April 16, 2024 at 5:31 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

@floatingworlds.bsky.social

#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849)
Travelers surprised by a sudden breeze in Ejiri, (1830-1832)
#Engraved #Ukiyo-e,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

May 1, 2024 at 12:16 AM

My Imaginary Brooklyn

@myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social

“Morning after the Snow at Koishikawa in Edo,” 1830. Katsushika Hokusai

#printmaking #woodblockprint #ukiyoe #metmuseum #KatsushikaHokusai

May 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

#art #swimmingturtles #turtles #edoperiod #katsushikahokusai #hokusai #Japan #japaneseart #nature

The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · May 31

titled "Swimming Turtles", a design by the legendary Edo-period master Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849).

titled Swimming Turtles, is a spectacular design by the legendary Edo-period master Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). The long, narrow format captures three turtles navigating a rushing aquatic landscape filled with aquatic plants and swirling currents. Hokusai masterfully employs a series of sweeping, diagonal bands of color to represent the movement of water, creating a rhythmic and highly stylized sense of depth.

The composition is structurally defined by three broad, curving diagonal bands of a light Prussian blue wash that slice across the frame from the upper left to the lower right. These bands create a powerful sense of an active, undulating current, cleverly dividing the composition into alternating planes of water and open space. Drifting through these currents are clusters of dark, fan-like water moss or pine-like aquatic foliage, rendered with dense, repetitive brushstrokes that introduce a crisp, high-contrast texture against the pale, aged background. In the lower third of the frame, long, slender strands of aquatic grass sway violently to the right, their fine, needle-like lines accentuating the speed and direction of the underlying stream.

Nestled within this fluid environment are three meticulously detailed turtles, each captured from a different angle to showcase their structural forms. The topmost turtle is the smallest, depicted mid-swim as it appears to dive or turn sharply downward. Its dark, rounded shell and outstretched, clawed flippers give it a wonderful sense of weightless suspension. Below it, the largest of the three turtles pushes through the central current, its shell showcasing a beautifully precise, interlocking hexagonal carapace pattern. The third turtle occupies the middle ground, its body partially obscured by a sweeping current line as it paddles upward, its head turned alertly toward the surface.

May 31, 2026 at 1:47 PM

Nicko Prints

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa – Colorful Pop Art Painting
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#greatwave #greatwaveoffkanagawa #hokusai #katsushikahokusai #japanesewave #japaneseart #ukiyoe #woodblockprint #mountfuji #popart #colorfulart #vibrantcolors #oceanart #buyintoart #artforsale #wallart

April 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM

NothingHappenedToday (Ed Harrington)

@edharrington.bsky.social

"Voltron Surfing The Great Wave off Kanagawa" #Voltron #Art #TheGreatWave #KatsushikaHokusai #PopCulture #DigitalArt

An image of Voltron riding a boat like a surf board in The Great Wave Japanese woodblock print

February 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM

Pictures of the Floating World

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#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849)
A Fisherman Standing on a Rocky Promontory at Kajikazawa in Kai ProvinceSeries: 36 Views of Mt.Fuji, published ca.1830-31

September 5, 2024 at 12:49 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

@floatingworlds.bsky.social

#KatsushikaHokusai (1760 –1849)
from Edo (former name of Tokyo)."Two Carps" is an example of Hokusai's transition from the traditional kabuki, courtesans, and wrestlers of the early #Ukiyo-e style, to works focusing on scenes of nature, of which Hokusai is most famous. #woodblocks #japanese

April 16, 2024 at 5:27 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

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#KatsushikaHokusai (1760 - 1849)
"Hide and Seek"
#japanese #woodblock #BristolMuseum

A blindfolded girl in a kimona slowly moves forward to find a friend who is hiding behind an open umbrella.

February 21, 2024 at 7:49 AM

Pictures of the Floating World

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#KatsushikaHokusai (1760–1849) Old View of the Boat-bridge at Sano in Kozuke Province (c. 1830)
print The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Howard Mansfield Collection). #japanese #woodblock