Katsushika Hokusai, Japan's best known artist, is ironically Japan's least Japanese artist. Japan's best known woodblock print,The Great Wave, is very un-Japanese. Welcome to the artist often known as Hokusai. Hokusai (1760-1849) lived during the Tokugawa period (1600 to 1867). In a Jap...
The Wave Gregor January 30, 2019 Hey look, it’s a refined version of that panel from Wade and Sea. It’s also available in store as a print right now! Also patrons will be getting their patron packs of this really soon, posting em now. This doesn’t count as this week’s comic ...
Artist creates stunning figurines using avocado pits Rescued stray cat becomes famous firefighting cat Hot air balloon trips in Turkey's Cappadocia region A glimpse of Venice, Italy Grey whale calves greet tourists in Mexico New members added on UNESCO’s World Heritage List Tourists enjoy 'intimate...
A whole room was devoted to this prominent artist and my mouth just hangs open. Next to this was a whole room dedicated to a checkered floor, 2 half inflated crayon blowup toys and a metal frame square suspended from the ceiling. I couldn’t stand to read what this was supposed to ...
Ride Your Wave 2019 671 votes Ride Your Wave is a 2020 Japanese animated film directed by Masaaki Yuasa. 19-year-old Hinako Mukaimizu (Rina Kawaei) moves to an oceanside town to attend college and indulge in her hobby, surfing, and falls in love with a local firefighter (Ryota Katayose)...
Japanese artist Miku Kakoi released the song IROHA written and produced by David Myhr. It charted #14 on the Japanese Billboard charts. Received massive airplay including one of the highest radio rotations for instance on "FM802" where IROHA was 3rd position in May 2011 with 121 times air-...
stuck in your head for the foreseeable future. This will always be the year that Ralfy lost his brother and his best friend, but I’ll also remember it as the year that Ralfy truly found his voice as an artist and year that the Stinc Team took over Los Angeles, cementing themselves ...
Sonic the Hedgehog, the Japanese-based Sega series of the early ‘90s, has been one of the most successful, and most prolific, spilling over into television, comics and related games and generating its own galaxy of characters. This third big-screen movie in the Sonic franchise continues the...
Do you want to know more about Japan’s most famous work of art? What is so special about an image of a tsunami wave? Let’s answer all these questions and more!
Keziah Daum, an 18-year-old student and artist from Utah in the United States, was accused of “culture appropriation” after she posted photos of her wearing cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress also called Qipao, for a school prom on twitter. As of Thursday (May 10), the post has be...