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Views of an Imaginary City 25: Night Market on Jajapi Beach
The Totamontra festival takes place over the course of a week at the end of summer. The series of ceremonial and festive events that comprise it were originally intended to propitiate a good harvest season, but they have long ago … Continue reading
Views of an Imaginary City 22: World Gardens in Rateliska Sesquicentennial Park
The Sesquicentennial Park on the island of Rateliska was created to commemorate the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the transfer of the imperial capital to Sensuka. In many ways, it represents the then newly-crowned Emperor Ojori III’s desire to outdo Cherufi Park, … Continue reading
Views of an Imaginary City 15: Imperial Water Riding Club on Golangolu
The Imperial Water Riding Club is a prestigious private club dedicated to the aristocratic sport of water riding—the riding of horses while they are swimming. The association’s palatial clubhouse sits on the shores of Golangolu (“Long Lake”), the largest of … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, Imaginary City, watercolour
Tagged clubhouse, equestrian, homelessness, horse riding, imaginary city, imaginary places, isometric perspective, japanese prints, la marina rowing club, rowing club, social inequality, swiss architecture, tigre, ukiyo-e, water riding, watercolor
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Views of an Imaginary City 11: Along the Terenfi Canal
The Nachilaterenfi (“Canal of Flowers”) connects the Imperial Canal to Rejoma Bay. It is so named because, in its early days, before its surroundings became one of the most built-up areas of the capital, the banks of the canal were … Continue reading
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Tagged canal, dotombori, dotonbori, gondola, imaginary city, imaginary places, japanese prints, perception of time, sehnsucht, time, ukiyo-e, water trade, watercolor
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Views of an Imaginary City 7: Tizabu Park and Tizabu Prison
Sensuka, to be sure, is a place of endless fascination and delight, but it can also be a heartless place. When one enters Sensuka Harbour and first looks out upon the colonnaded wharves and polychrome marble facades rising from the … Continue reading
Views of an Imaginary City 6: Dastazuriki in the Little Switzerland Neighbourhood
Western traders first arrived in Sensuka soon after the city’s founding by the emperor Bulodi I as his new imperial capital. Two decades later, however, following a moral panic over the corrupting influence of Western values, religious beliefs, and food, … Continue reading
Views of an Imaginary City 2: The Teposensuki or “Lovers’ Bridge”
The Teposensuki (“Sensuka Bridge”) is the widest and most monumental of the bridges spanning the Juminta River in the central area of the city known as the Kadini (“Nest”). It is also notable for being the sole bridge in the … Continue reading
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Tagged imaginary city, imaginary places, japanese prints, lovers' bridge, romance, sehnsucht, ukiyo-e
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Views of an Imaginary City 1: Entering Sensuka Bay
Entering Sensuka Bay In this opening print of the series, the viewer is transported onto the deck of one of the steam-powered ferries linking Sensuka to Kadonde, on the other side of the Golden Strait. The steamer is rounding the … Continue reading
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Tagged imaginary city, imaginary places, japanese prints, sehnsucht, ukiyo-e
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Two Montreal Views in the Style of Ukiyo-e Prints
Two scenes from near where I live – an alley in Côte-Saint-Paul and a view along the aqueduct in Verdun – rendered in a style that tries to imitate that of the nineteenth-century Japanese ukiyo-e prints by such artists as … Continue reading
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Tagged alley, aqueduct, cote-saint-paul, hiroshige, hokusai, japanese prints, Montreal, sud-ouest, ukiyo-e, Verdun
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