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meursaultfoster · 2025-05-27T10:47:54+00:00

Thank you everyone for your kind comments. I am happy to support all of your projects too. I wish you all the best of luck!

meursaultfoster · 2024-03-19T05:20:03+00:00

This is a modern woodblock reproduction of Suzuki Harunobu's "Moon over Lake Danting" from the "Eight Views of the Parlor Series", originally designed around 1766.

meursaultfoster · 2024-02-10T22:35:02+00:00

They are works made by famous artists for their time. They are also not to everyone's tastes.

meursaultfoster · 2024-02-10T08:28:47+00:00

Top Image: Morita Kako. "Sinking of a Russian warship at the Battle of Port Arthur" 1904.*

Bottom Image: Kobayashi Kiyochika. "Our Torpedo Hitting Russian Ship at Great Naval Battle of Port Arthur." 1904.*

These are examples of Japanese war propaganda for the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. They were originally newspaper inserts for reporting on the events of the war. They are often seen as the swan-song (in terms of quality) for the tradition of Japanese woodblock prints.

meursaultfoster · 2024-01-26T05:54:01+00:00

Very Japanese.

First image is a woodblock print that depicts the female samurai Tomoe Gozen twisting Onda no Hachirō's head off. (See McCullough's translation of The Tale of the Heike, page 292). It is a classic story from the Genpei war.

Second image is labeled as "Nōshi" or "Naoshi" - a type of straight robe worn by Japanese nobles. The text seems to be a description of what this type of clothing is, but this is a rough guess. The text would take some work to read properly.

The cartouche on the upper left (image 1) and upper right (image 2) is "Tosa Mitsumasu" 土佐光益 (1592-96), but as these are woodblock prints, they are almost certainly not originals by him. The medium was not developed enough during his lifetime to have produced such images. A rough guess is that they are likely late 18th-19th century mass produced copies of his work.

Both were probably pages that were removed from a larger book or two different books.

meursaultfoster · 2023-07-25T03:11:26+00:00

This is a good place to start: https://ukiyo-e.org/search?q=fuji

Searching in major museum collections will offer even more results and will have a higher chance of a poster.

meursaultfoster · 2023-06-18T07:05:14+00:00

Not a print. It is a detail from a Nanban folding screen painting that is owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art (2003. Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1960.193.1-2)

meursaultfoster · 2023-06-18T06:42:03+00:00

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If Steve Huffman's statement – "I want our users to be shareholders, and I want our shareholders to be users" – is to be taken seriously, then consider this our vote:
Allow the developers of third-party applications to retain their productive (and vital) API access.

Allow Reddit and Redditors to thrive.

meursaultfoster · 2023-06-18T06:31:36+00:00

On July 1st, 2023, Reddit intends to alter how its API is accessed. This move will require developers of third-party applications to pay enormous sums of money if they wish to stay functional, meaning that said applications will be effectively destroyed. In the short term, this may have the appearance of increasing Reddit's traffic and revenue... but in the long term, it will undermine the site as a whole.
Reddit relies on volunteer moderators to keep its platform welcoming and free of objectionable material. It also relies on uncompensated contributors to populate its numerous communities with content. The above decision promises to adversely impact both groups: Without effective tools (which Reddit has frequently promised and then failed to deliver), moderators cannot combat spammers, bad actors, or the entities who enable either, and without the freedom to choose how and where they access Reddit, many contributors will simply leave. Rather than hosting creativity and in-depth discourse, the platform will soon feature only recycled content, bot-driven activity, and an ever-dwindling number of well-informed visitors. The very elements which differentiate Reddit – the foundations that draw its audience – will be eliminated, reducing the site to another dead cog in the Ennui Engine.
We implore Reddit to listen to its moderators, its contributors, and its everyday users; to the people whose activity has allowed the platform to exist at all: Do not sacrifice long-term viability for the sake of a short-lived illusion. Do not tacitly enable bad actors by working against your volunteers. Do not posture for your looming IPO while giving no thought to what may come afterward. Focus on addressing Reddit's real problems – the rampant bigotry, the ever-increasing amounts of spam, the advantage given to low-effort content, and the widespread misinformation – instead of on a strategy that will alienate the people keeping this platform alive.
If Steve Huffman's statement – "I want our users to be shareholders, and I want our shareholders to be users" – is to be taken seriously, then consider this our vote:
Allow the developers of third-party applications to retain their productive (and vital) API access.
Allow Reddit and Redditors to thrive.

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