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Dr. Martens’ Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji collection is a work of wearable art

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2022
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa meets street style for a new generation.

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• (art • bags • boots • cool • Doc Martens • Dr. Martens • fashion • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York • shoes • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • The Met • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyo-e • ukiyoe • woodblock prints)

Japan has stopped printing its current yen bills, Mt. Fuji only element to be retained in new set

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 12, 2022

A changing of the yen guard for everything except Japan’s tallest mountain.

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• (art • cool • culture • Great Wave off Kanagawa • hokusai • money • ukiyo-e • yen • yen bills)

We make a gorgeous wooden art display piece out of Hokusai’s Great Wave

• Katy Kelly
  Sep 27, 2021

Hokusai’s Great Wave has gone from woodblock to art sensation to a wooden art display piece.

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• (art • arts and crafts • beautiful • COK • cool • craft kit • crafts • Great Wave • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • natural • SNJO • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Own the lighter side of ukiyo-e with a zodiac chimera and weird tiger-stone items by Felissimo

• Master Blaster
  Sep 27, 2021

Let a little classical absurdity into your life.

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• (53 Parallels of Tokaido • art • Chinese zodiac • Felissimo • torakoishi • ukiyo-e • Utagawa Kuniyoshi • woodblock prints)

Mickey Mouse stars in kabuki poses on new line of limited-edition, Tokyo-only goods

• Dale Roll
  Aug 27, 2021

Plus, be the proud owner of Disney-decorated Kyoto traditional handicrafts!

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• (cool • culture • cute • Disney • kabuki • Kyoto • limited • Mickey Mouse • ukiyo-e)

Asics Ukiyo-e x Manga sneakers combine modern and traditional Japan for Tokyo Marathon 2021

• Oona McGee
  Aug 13, 2021

When Mt Fuji and comic book scripts collide. 

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• (art • ASICS • cool • design • fashion • hokusai • Japanese style • Katsushika Hokusai • limited edition • manga • running • shoes • sneakers • Tokyo Marathon 2021 • ukiyo-e)

Give your cat culture and class with a beautiful ukiyo-e painting that’s also a scratching post

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 28, 2021

Great Wave off Kanagawa becomes great place for your cat to relax.

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• (animals • art • beautiful • cats • cool • Felissimo • Great Wave off Kanagawa • hokusai • interior • Nekobu • pets • ukiyo-e)

Japanese art has never looked quite as beautiful as when it’s made out of Japanese beef【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 21, 2021

Ukiyo-e meets wagyu in this culturally culinary crossover.

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• (art • beef • clever • culture • food • funny • hokusai • meat • omi beef • ukiyo-e • Wagyu)

Amazing photos show Mt. Fuji looking just like an ukiyo-e woodblock painting

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 10, 2021

Photographer captures the mountain’s peak just as it must have inspired Hokusai.

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• (beautiful • hokusai • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • nature • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Felissimo releases limited-edition “Color in Edo! Hokusai Colored Pencils” set

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 23, 2021

This latest themed set of 20 colored pencils is inspired by the Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji series by master artisan Katsushika Hokusai.

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• (art • COK • colored pencils • cool • drawing • Felissimo • hokusai • illustration • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • ukiyo-e • Waraku Web • woodblock prints)

Wear Japan’s most iconic landmark on your shoes with this Adidas collaboration【Photos】

• Katie Pask
  Mar 4, 2021

Get a bit of Japanese traditional culture in your step with shoes designed by tattoo artists from Osaka.

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• (Adidas • art • cool • fashion • Mt. Fuji • shoes • three tides tattoo • ukiyo-e)

Undress an ukiyo-e woman out of her kimono with this Japanese magic towel hack

• SoraNews24
  Feb 17, 2021

You’ll need more than hot water to fully appreciate the beauty of this towel.

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• (art • beautiful women • crazy • magic towel • souvenirs • towels • ukiyo-e • ukiyoe • weird)

Japanese fine art and pill bugs finally become one in BugArts Ukiyo-e series

• Master Blaster
  Dec 17, 2020

All artists involved are no longer living, and that’s probably for the best.

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• (art • Bandai • bugs • hokusai • pill-bug • potato bug • roly poly • Toshusai Sharaku • toys • ukiyo-e • Utagawa Kuniyoshi • Utagawa Yoshifuji • weird • woodblock prints)

Erotic Japanese woodblock print underwear makes a statement when you take off your pants【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 20, 2020

Hokusai and other ukiyo-e masters of the Edo period are here to help your crotch look its best.

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• (art • culture • fashion • Hipshop • history • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • ukiyo-e • underwear • woodblock prints)

Fujisan beer, made with rice grown by water under Mt. Fuji, may have world’s most beautiful can

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 23, 2020

Asahi Beer releases limited-run ale made with 100-percent Japan-grown ingredients.

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• (alcohol • art • Asahi Beer • beautiful • beer • drinks • hokusai • Mt. Fuji • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Japan’s new ukiyo-e woodblock print passports are beautiful, now in travelers’ hands【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 5, 2020

Passport holders in Japan now have a miniature gallery of the works of Hokusai, the country’s most famous traveling painter.

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• (art • awesome • beautiful • cool • culture • Katsushika Hokusai • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • travel • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

What if Avengers: Endgame was an ukiyo-e woodblock painting series? It’d look awesome like this

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2019

Japanese artist reimagines Marvel’s all-star cast, creating storm god Thanos, “Widow Ninja Black Spider” and “Chivalrous Ant Thief.”

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• (art • Avengers • Avengers: Endgame • cool • Marvel • movies • Studio Ghibli • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Japan redesigns yen bills and coin, adds beautiful ukiyo-e painting, women’s education pioneer

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 9, 2019

Country continues tradition of honoring icons of art and science over politicians on its currency.

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• (500-yen coin • art • coins • cool • culture • Great Wave off Kanagawa • hokusai • money • ukiyo-e • yen)

You can now wear the birthplace of Japanese tentacle porn on your feet with Shunga Sneakers

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2019

Famous woodblock print from master painter Hokusai adapted to sneakers that leave the naughty bits to your vivid imagination.

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• (art • culture • fashion • hokusai • shoes • shunga • sneakers • The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife • ukiyo-e • weird)

Is this pet kitty in Japan a real-life nekomata mythical cat monster?

• Dale Roll
  Jan 30, 2019

Could the evil yokai cats truly be among us?

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• (animals • art • cats • culture • cute • nekomata • pets • ukiyo-e • yokai)

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