serendipity

while researching something else, i came across this amazing blog. i was really sorry i didn't know japanese, and that the online translators are not yet out of beta.

this one reminded me of steinlen's 'la rue.'

since all of the images i've selected come close to the end of the meiji period, the same timespan of many of the mfa postcards we've seen, i guess it's almost like them imitating us imitating them. doesn't this cranes one look like the woman reflected in water one?

i love all the textures here.

this one could almost have been david goines in a past life.

i am very sorry that most of the book covers, which i found most interesting of all, particularly when compared to what was going on here at the same time, i just didn't feel would reproduce all that well. all the more reason for you to check it out!

but the magazines....