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Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca.
1830)
Author : crescit_eundo
Score : 98 points
Date : 2024-10-29 20:51 UTC (4 days ago)
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| bcraven wrote:
| Recommend BBC documentary about Hokusai, going into each period
| of his work:
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| https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Hokusai:_Old_Man_Crazy_...
| j_moulin32 wrote:
| I'm glad he never got to the print where a man is haunted for
| watching to much online 'entertainment' - that would have
| bothered me
| doctorhandshake wrote:
| Related: Yoshitoshi's "New Forms of 36 Ghosts", available as an
| (out-of-print) book:
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| https://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/Yoshitoshi-36-Ghost...
| Muromec wrote:
| Hokusai is great and as with all ukiyo-e, you can buy a nice
| reprint for around hundred bucks. It was supposed to be mass-
| produced and not be in a single exemplair somewhere on a wall in
| museum.
| mikeryan wrote:
| These are all from the Library of Congress you can download
| high res TIFFs for them and print them yourself.
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| Here's one. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g08749/
| SapporoChris wrote:
| The last image Obsession (Shunen) the article mentions is a
| Swastika which though technically correct is actually a
| Sauvastika. The Swastika associated with Nazi bends to the right.
| The most common Japanese reading for Wan the symbol that bends
| to the left is Manji. The Wan (manji) symbol is frequently used
| to indicate a temple on maps in Japan, although due to confusion
| that tourists frequently have regarding Wan and Wan this is
| slowly changing.
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| Yes, it's a classical Buddhist symbol (and Hinduist), hence why
| it's used to indicate Buddhist temples on maps and appears here
| in Hokusai's art.
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| Fwiw the term 'sauvastika' was invented in 1850 by European
| scholars to try to describe/explain why sometimes it went the
| other direction. These are the same geniuses who helped
| popularize the myth of the "Aryans" that led to Hitler's
| idiotic interpretation (he literally thought "Aryans" were
| Nordic peoples who invaded India, descended from the lost city
| of Atlantis, despite the actual Indo-Aryan people being
| basically Iranian...). The word doesn't mean anything and you
| can just say swastika.
|
| Some cultures have specific meanings for specific directions,
| like how for Buddhists the left-turning one represents the
| Buddha's footprints, and for Hindus the right-turning one
| represents the expansion of the universe. 'The one associated
| with the Nazis' is therefore also associated with many other
| cultures and uses, but we Westerners being poorly educated and
| not exposed to other cultures, can only focus on the Western
| symbolism (ignoring how it was a popular symbol throughout the
| West from 1880-1920).
| hipnoizz wrote:
| Accidentally yesterday I watched 'Miss Hokusai' about a daughter
| of the artist - she was a painter herself. The (animated) movie
| can be seen as a series of episodes, with the relations between
| Katsushika Oi and her father being one of the subjects presented.
| From a quick glance at the (English) Wikipedia page about Hokusai
| I could spot some divergences compared to the movie. Anyway, I
| enjoyed the move quite a bit.
| maxbond wrote:
| If you're in Kansas City, you might check out the Hokusai exhibit
| in the Nelson-Atkins (which runs until Jan 5th). I particularly
| enjoyed some prints from Hokusai's daughters they of women at
| work (as fishermen, farmers, geisha).
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| There were also some learning materials created by Hokusai, like
| diagrams explaining methods to make characters seem balanced, or
| stock art gridded for transfer. It was an interesting peek being
| the curtain.
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