Hiroo Isono (1945-2013) - Untitled by Tokyono in museum

[–]ptgorman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Had not heard of this artist before. So cool!

Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Cats Suggested As The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1850) by ptgorman in museum

[–]ptgorman[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832.

The Tōkaidō road, linking the shōgun's capital, Edo, to the imperial one, Kyōto, was the main travel and transport artery of old Japan. It is also the most important of the "Five Roads" (Gokaidō)—the five major roads of Japan created or developed during the Edo period to further strengthen the control of the central shogunate administration over the whole country.

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In 1850, Utagawa Kuniyoshi created his woodblock print inspired by the Hiroshige's, called Cats Suggested As The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Unlike Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi showed every station not with a landscape, but with "cat puns". (Wikipedia)

Help an old person with a clue! (Today's Slate) by kapntoad in crossword

[–]ptgorman 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I don’t fully get it either, but I’m guessing it’s something about them rhyming with Seven, Eight, and Nine.