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'Cats Suggested as The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Kuniyoshi
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Notes:
In searching up cat references, I happened on the Cats of Japan...Buddhists brought them from China, and the Japanese went crazy for them...and too the Japanese artists...a tradition in Japan is for artist to do things in series...a Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji, or some such...and they did Cat series...this particular one celebrates the rest stations along a coastal road, the stations each have a distinctive characteristic, and the Cats illustrate this in their activities...sorta like Route 66 tourist maps...it was a tourist thing, maybe religious too...shrines along the route...a pilgrimage?...like St. James' in Spain?...an odd story that...from reading Kipling's Kim, I found such journies on India's roads too...travel, tourism, not a new thing-see Pausanias!...lol...anyway, tomorrow kicks off another Strada Easel challenge month...will try for 31 ways of seeing the Pacific Coast Hwy...on top of that is a twenty day challenge by the Southern California Plein Air Association...lured into getting membership by members I met in September; and Laguna Plein Air Association membership too!...modest fees...beats bowling...
:)
DavidDavid
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