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Oct 31Liked by Gianni Simone

I managed to pick up a Hiroshige in an antique shop here in the UK. The owner didn't know what it was, so I got it really cheap (one of my best finds). It features a street scene but the blues are the dominant colour; including that lovely faded sky.

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Lucky you! There was a time when Westerners came to Japan and took home all those fine prints for pennies because the Japanese didn't understand their real value.

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I think there may have been a BBC documentary about Hokusai's The Wave and its use of blue a few years ago. Something like Paintings That Changed The World?

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That should be a good one. I like BBC's docs.

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Lovely post, Gianni, hope you’re well. Thought you’d appreciate this:

https://www.artic.edu/videos/182/hokusai-s-the-great-wave-behind-the-scenes

On view now for a few months .

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Thanks Jolene. Yes, Jeffrey's piece was so good that I had to repost it.

That exhibition may be the same I saw earlier this year in Tokyo.

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