Posts tagged ukiyo-e
🍂 Ryōkan: In the scenery of spring …
- 23 September 2023
This poem by RyĹŤkan was quoted by Alan Watts[1] in one of his lectures[2]; this was what originally motivated me to look for it in full and reproduce it here. The source of the painting is not related to RyĹŤkan[3].
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai
- 18 July 2023
Although it might be a cliché by now, I’ve always been quite fond of ukiyo-e, the Japanese art of woodblock printing[1], and of course of Hokusai’s work. As for many, my earliest exposure to this type of art was Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa [2] and so it’s here for posterity.
