I have enjoyed visiting the Echoes of the Floating World exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum multiple times, discovering something new each time.
This time, I was intrigued by woodblock prints by Kawanabe Kyosai, especially the one featured above, in detail. The museum has this triptych of prints titled as Comic One Million Turns of the Rosary. A book of prints I own titles it Comic Infinite Prayers. (Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, the joys of translation.)
The piece is political, expressing world events of 1864, and I'm glad for commentary from the museum and my book or I would have no idea what was going on. It's beautiful and weird, in its own right, but having a cultural context helps to infuse the print with even more power.
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