A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
This is one of Hokusai's final prints #Hokusai has depicted the famous #cherryblossoms of #yoshino as a cloud like mass as thick as mist dominating the landscape and perhaps irony the humans are not spectators or tourists or pilgrims but travellers carrying loads and the man near the centre not viewing the scenery but checking his packhorse who may have hoof troubles ?
#Shinsai #cherryblossom #rain #surimono #japaneseprint
SHINSAI early 19th century
Its still raining in #sydney !!! sooo ...
The cherry blossoms and rainfall is rendered in a very formal stylized manner but this contrasts with the texture of the tree trunk and the gray middle tones of the rain
Note the white streak contrasting with the darker gray lines for the rain something easier to do with wood carving and careful block inking than ink on paper with a brush.
