note that Japanese read pictures from right to left, while Western readers read left to right. Westerners view the last image as an awesome wave and usually miss the boats, while Japanese viewers relate to the boats first and then feel how doomed they are.
Dude, I've never noticed the boats.
I never imagined how this would apply to images. Fascinating! I wonder what other art has a totally different tone to native RTL readers.
Well now I'm just confused about how I am supposed to read the image. Like... It's numbered 1 2 3 4. Is that top left to bottom right? Which one is the "last" one? Which one is the "first" one?
I could probably just look it up, but ehh.
How could you miss the 3 boats?
Wait that's 2 more fuckin boats? Wth!
Anything else you wanna add? Is there a dragon somewhere I'm not seeing as well
Yes… BEHIND YOU!
try flipping the picture horizontally, its a very different experience
Hey, I'm going to leave this up since it's aroused interest, but for future reference, HistoryPorn is for photographs. HistoryDrawings or HistoryArtifacts would be more appropriate for this kind of content.
Lemmy isn't really big enough yet to support small communities like that. Reddit needed to make super niche communities because it's so busy.
Clearly this belongs in HistoryDrawingsOfJapaneseWater
I apologize. It's been too long since I read the rules in the sidebar.
No worries! I'm always happy to see contributions, just letting you know for future reference.
Would you mind linking to the other instances?
Didn't know I would need to subscribe to multiple families of a history porn 😅
They're in the sidebar, but
Each of theese communities is averaging between 1 post a week and one post a month, why not combine them into one community that could be getting 3 posts a week?
Yeah, this is just needless pedantism and ego-stroking.
What about actual historical works of pornography?
Like this?
Bluffing IMO.
1907/1912 Autochrome photograph.
But which way are the pictures displayed?
1 2
3 4
1 3
2 4
Top left is going to be first, bottom right is last. Since bottom left is pretty close in structure to bottom right, I'm going with top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right.
That fits the reading pattern of western cultures.
Left right top bottom, like how we read. You can see a pretty linear evolution in the style.
I think that's the intended way too, but it's not exactly a given as other languages have different reading patterns. Japan, for instance, reads right to left, and others read vertically.
Yea but this is in English made for an English community. It's pretty safe to assume.
I believe this is a screenshot of a Twitter post, which would make the order your first example.
Well if it's japanese, I'd say option B..
But the paintings look more like A is correct.
Right to left, top to bottom
3 1
4 2
But but AI could do it better and it's not even ten years old yet!!!!!!
Also the waves would have titties
Also the waves would have titties
Well I'm sold
And seven fingers
Then you need 3 titties to match
Huh. Started at waist high and ended as five times Mount Fuji.
You're probably one of those that missed the (3) boats.
Very interesting, I have never seen the earlier versions before. I wonder why I can't find a Fuji in two of those, because The Great Wave is part of a "Views of Mt. Fuji" series.
Painted on cloudy days.
Lol, that would be such a troll move in a series of Fuji paintings. As far as I known Hokusai painted mainly two things, landscapes including Mt. Fuji and explicit porn scenes. He was a trained Mt. Fuji Painter, which is a respected craft with a specialized apprenticeship in Japan btw.
Well, notice the final version does include Fuji. For some reason OP neglected to post it, so here: Sea is for Cookie
(and yes, this was a random encounter!)
Hahaha, I love it!
Through this, we can conclude that Hokusai was the first Benjamin Button, due to his perspective getting shorter each time
Context?
The Japanese artist Hokusai and his art. The last painting is quite famous but most of us haven't seen the pieces that helped him develop his style along the way.
These are actually woodblock prints, not paintings. But yes Hokusai was one of the great masters of the technique. The art style here from the Edo period is called Ukiyo-e, or "floating world" / "transient world".
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