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note that Japanese read pictures from right to left, while Western readers read left to right. Westerners view the last image as an awesome wave and usually miss the boats, while Japanese viewers relate to the boats first and then feel how doomed they are.
How could you miss the 3 boats?
Wait that's 2 more fuckin boats? Wth!
Anything else you wanna add? Is there a dragon somewhere I'm not seeing as well
Yes… BEHIND YOU!
try flipping the picture horizontally, its a very different experience
…still 3 boats.
Well now I'm just confused about how I am supposed to read the image. Like... It's numbered 1 2 3 4. Is that top left to bottom right? Which one is the "last" one? Which one is the "first" one?
I could probably just look it up, but ehh.
Dude, I've never noticed the boats.
I never imagined how this would apply to images. Fascinating! I wonder what other art has a totally different tone to native RTL readers.
I learned this from hentai
I mean manga
Sure
But to be serious for a moment, I just happen to be watching The Great War Of Archimedes right now and it is only now dawning on me how much of the action takes place from right to left.
Now, I believe this film was based on a Manga, so it is less surprising that it would inherently adopt that visual language, but now I am going to be watching all Japanese cinema more closely to see how fundamentally RTL impacts the approach to film making.
Huh. Started at waist high and ended as five times Mount Fuji.
You're probably one of those that missed the (3) boats.
TIDAL WAVE FROM GD REFERENCE???
Well that first wave is fucking tiny.
That's the OK wave. Followed by the decent wave, then the pretty good wave. The last one is the great wave.
Maybe the great wave is death in his eyes?
But but AI could do it better and it's not even ten years old yet!!!!!!
Also the waves would have titties
And seven fingers
Then you need 3 titties to match
Also the waves would have titties
Well I'm sold
Context?
The Japanese artist Hokusai and his art. The last painting is quite famous but most of us haven't seen the pieces that helped him develop his style along the way.
These are actually woodblock prints, not paintings. But yes Hokusai was one of the great masters of the technique. The art style here from the Edo period is called Ukiyo-e, or "floating world" / "transient world".
Very interesting, I have never seen the earlier versions before. I wonder why I can't find a Fuji in two of those, because The Great Wave is part of a "Views of Mt. Fuji" series.
Well, notice the final version does include Fuji. For some reason OP neglected to post it, so here: Sea is for Cookie
(and yes, this was a random encounter!)
Hahaha, I love it!
Painted on cloudy days.
Lol, that would be such a troll move in a series of Fuji paintings. As far as I known Hokusai painted mainly two things, landscapes including Mt. Fuji and explicit porn scenes. He was a trained Mt. Fuji Painter, which is a respected craft with a specialized apprenticeship in Japan btw.
Through this, we can conclude that Hokusai was the first Benjamin Button, due to his perspective getting shorter each time
