Style wise I really like some of the ones from the Franco Prussian war and ukiyo e from the Meiji wars
That was such a wonderful exhibit. I had one day in Seattle before my daughter moved to Japan, and it was a great thing for us to be able to do together before she left. So thoughtfully put together!
...I had the idea of drawing @gazomi.bsky.social's classic dragon fruit form while emulating the ukiyo-e style. Could still be definitely a lot better, but I liked how it turned out.
Aren't they amazing? The more I read about Ukiyo-E and those periods of Japanese are the more I want to learn about it!
Surprisingly no Kintaro (Golden Boy) depicted with the Yama Uba here. There are Ukiyo-E woodblock prints of him with her, training forest animals like rabbits and monkeys to wrestle. historyofjapan.co.uk/2020/08/31/k...
...with death and old age because, rather than dropping its flowers gradually, they all drop at once. As a result, it's considered taboo to give camelia flowers as gifts to anyone who is sick or in hospital. #JapaneseArt#ukiyoe 🎨1. Utagawa Hiroshige 2. Matthew Meyer 3. Nishimura Hodo 2/2
