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Showing posts with label Katsushika Hokusai. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Katsushika Hokusai. Show all posts

Friday, June 01, 2018

Potted landscapes on the Tōkaidō

Utagawa Hiroshige, Hiratsuka on the Tokaido , 1833–1834 The Public Domain Review is a constant source of fascinating material and I tho...

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-green

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter) , 1565 According to Robert D. Denham's, Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography (...

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Green and gold and turquoise waves

Camille Pissarro, The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning (1899) During a pleasant sunny day last Saturday in the Tuileries Ga...

Monday, September 22, 2008

Mount Fuji seen from the beach at Tago

In Japanese literature certain place names, utamakura, have specific poetic associations. 'To mention Miyagino was to imply hagi , bush...

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The Tatsuta River in Autumn

In the Shotetsu monogatari , Shotetsu (1381-1459) wrote ‘If someone asks you in which of the provinces Yoshino may be found, you should answ...

Saturday, August 19, 2006

The Bay of Shiogama

Katsushika Hokusai, The Minister Toru , c. 1833-4 Among the miniature landscapes reproduced in Japanese gardens, one of the more elabo...

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Plinius: This blog explores landscape through the arts: painting, installation, photography, literature, music, film... I've also on occasion covered the creation or alteration of landscapes by architects, artists and garden designers. For the first year I did several short entries each week; since then I have reduced the frequency and some posts are a bit longer. In naming this site 'Some Landscapes' initially I just saw it as a few modest notes and didn't know if I'd keep it up. Of course it will always only cover 'some' landscapes, even though I occasionally like to think of it as an expanding cultural gazetteer. There are some maps and a chronology of posts that I did a while back but the best way of exploring is through the search function, labels or just browsing old posts. I started writing this blog using the name 'Plinius' (a little tribute to the younger and older Plinys) and am now rather attached to it as a 'nom de blog'. Comments are very welcome but are moderated to prevent spam. I used to post landscape stuff on Twitter but now use Bluesky: @andrew-ray.bsky.social.

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