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Art Gallery: Thirty-Six NEW Views of Mount Fuji

Image: Highway Fuji, by Seisai One of the more famous series of Japanese paintings is Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. It is a series of large woodblock prints … Continue reading

April 7, 2013 · 2 Comments

Art Gallery: Suehiro Maruo

Suehiro Maruo is a 57-year-old Japanese manga artist who works in a genre know as “ero-guro,” or “erotic grotesque.” His graphic  images – he has a penchant for human oddities, sex … Continue reading

March 26, 2013 · Leave a comment

Art Gallery: Tokyo After the Apocalypse

There are no more people in Tokyo. Something very, very bad happened and everyone died. The city is being swallowed up by the earth. That is the world as portrayed … Continue reading

March 20, 2013 · 4 Comments

Photo Studio: Hiroshi Nonami

Hiroshi Nonami is a 59-year-old Japanese photographer whose photographs may look like drawings or may look like they have been photoshopped, but alas, they are just the product of some … Continue reading

March 18, 2013 · 1 Comment