Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Dangerous Surf

Sender: Marg
Woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige. Dangerous surf below the Satta Pass near Yui, 1855

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858, sometimes called Ando Hiroshige) was one of the great masters of the Japanese landscape woodblock print. He was a ukiyo-e artist(literally "pictures of the floating world").

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