HIROSHIGE AND VAN GOGH

HIROSHIGE AND VAN GOGH
Read About Van Gogh's Secret Visit to Japan

WELCOME TO BLOGABOUTJAPAN

WELCOME TO BLOGABOUTJAPAN
IT WAS A SPECIAL TIME IN MY LIFETIME

APT WITH TATAMI MATS, a special time in my lifetime in Japan...

APT WITH TATAMI MATS, a special time in my lifetime in Japan...
Watercolor by R.L.Huffstutter

COMPARISONS IN ART

COMPARISONS IN ART
HIROSHIGE'S WORK ON LEFT, VAN GOGH'S ON RIGHT

YOKOHAMA PICTURE SHOW

YOKOHAMA PICTURE SHOW
Shot with my Petri in Yokohama 1962

RICE FIELD IN JAPAN 1962

RICE FIELD IN JAPAN 1962
I took this with my PETRI in Kanagawa Prefecture

Saturday, May 30, 2009

ENOSHIMA, JAPAN TRAIN STATION, MAY 1962

I SPENT MANY DAYS AT ENOSHIMA SKETCHING AND SIPPING SAKE. SOMEHOW, IT ALWAYS SEEMED TO RAIN SOMETIME DURING AN AFTERNOON.

Dohtonbori View


Dohtonbori View
Originally uploaded by bakagaijiin
This looks so much like the japan of the 60s........A favorite. I loved the canals with the bridges and painted numerous scenes of them in yokohama and tokyo from 1961 to 1963. Many of them were framed and placed behind the bars of the little sake and beer bars...................Rob