Floating world /Flying fish / If you believe in me.
The gspirit /other world which explains my instinctive interests in Hokusai's work.
The series was created as part of Hokusai's own personal obsession with the Japanese mountain but also as a response to a domestic travel boom at the time. The series made Hokusai famous in both Japan and internationally.
1760 Hokusai - Manga - Ukiyo-e - I had never made this connection before.
Manga meant drawing in this context and Ukiyo-e translates as “pictures of the floating world”.
Over 100 Unpublished Hokusai Drawings Resurface in New Exhibition
Created nearly 200 years ago for the artist’s unpublished The Great Picture Book of Everything, the works will go on view at the British Museum.
"Cats and hibiscus" by Katsushika Hokusai from Banmotsu ehon daizen zu (Illustrations for The Great Picture Book of Everything). Block-ready drawing, ink on paper, Japan, 1820s–40s.
The Ukiyo-e Artists You Need To Know
serendipity Pronunciation /ˌsɛr(ə)nˈdɪpɪti/
-The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. Origin
1754 coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’.
Synchronicity
-The simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.
Arthur Koestler – Coincidence, Synchronicity, and Parapsychology
Synchronicity