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MeghanIsMe ([personal profile] stormdog) wrote2012-05-17 02:00 am

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I've been editing and posting a bunch of my pictures from Toronto as I lounge about in Chicago with [livejournal.com profile] lisagems this week. Here's one of them that I rather like. Pretty colors!


Guu Sakabar Mural
Guu Saka Bar Mural, Toronto
Copyright Stormdog 2011


I really love paint-on-brick signs and art, and this is particularly wonderful.

This is based on a ukio-e print from Katsushika Hokusai's series 36 Views of Mt. Fuji, made between 1826 and 1833. That was before the opening of Japan to contact with the Western world. I wonder what the artist would have thought of his work being used this way, in this context.