Kamido Card Game French Edition

Please note: asterisks denote: a corresponding note jus above the links section....& For a detailed view of the bottom two rows please use this link: fav.me/d6kcmjl

Although better viewed via the details here: this card deck, (Orig: 85 cards in 7 families... now a total of .... well count here: fav.me/d5j69rl *** if you really want to... like these), were inspired by two major and 2,471 minor pieces of inspiration.... a: a certain woman called "pom" which is amusing as she isn't english, and it's not an "Oz" type nickname...plus as the second "great influence" various Ukiyo-E Japanese Woodblock Artists....Other influences: (those 2,471 minor pieces ), aubrey beardsley, arthur rackham (not the pool player..., the Victorian fantasy artist...), wm. morris, bear with me this may take a while...........



.........(considerably later!), .....omar khayyam, richard bach, oscar wilde a.c. doyle, all true but.. the present requires my attentionso....This sampling of "The French Edition" includes the "Imperial Alchemist" bottom-r-h-s, with, on right, the macaques that bathe in winter in the hot springs* on Honshu Island, (Japans largest), in Nagano Prefecture about km from Nagano itself in Jigokudani Park.youtu.be/txDR1y1drl0

Whilst you watch the video do note,( @54-57secs) the similarity between the snowbound village and this: www.penhook.org/woodblock%20pr… by: Ando Hiroshige and people like Utamaro: (example print, ), Katsushika Taito: (example print, and of course: "Kanagawa-oki nami-ura": www.britishmuseum.org/explore/… (a quirky yet fascinatingly well-informed article & vidproject @ The British Museum, of an incredibly famous print!, thats right!, my journal skin!)by the amazing wooodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai the other "floating world", ("Ukiyo-E"**), Artist.. who can, with the aforementioned sampling of the merest "handful" of, particularly famous to us, Japanese Woodblock Artists were the great grandparents of contemporary "Manga" art in graphic design, comics, clothes, cosplay and a multitude of other expressions....



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** Ukiyo-E "pictures of the floating world" (1600-mid 1800's) particularly centred upon the concept of the floating almost ethereal life affordable by, usually, the Samourai class, or higher....and afforded by the theatre, pleasure an discretely clouded by custom and discretion, " night time " areas in the capital, Edo..now Tokyo..or: "Western capitalremember: there were both male and female samourai in Japan (Nihon)

***or for use with: "oh...!!I'm-bored!-what-shall-we-do-now!", children....),

****, (Kyoto was for short while the "Eastern Capital" or simply: "Capital City"..depending on your school of thought...)

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UTUBE: Hokusai, Absolutely wonderful and touching animation that(lit.) brings his drawings and manga stuff to life!

WIKI:Hokusai en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsushi…

BBC ARTS: Hokusai's "Kanagawa-oki nami-ura": (Num: 93... )On RADIO 4's : "A history of the world in 100 objects" totally fascinating! (as is the whole series.. from hockney to shadow puppets, suffragette-defaced coins to the Inkan gold llama...yep!, couldn't resist...etc.) a, ......mexican codex .... a clock from Darwins ship, hms beagle....... &c..

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The Hokusai Sketchbooks: Selections from the Manga
(ISBN: 0804802521 / 0-8048-0252-1)
Michener, James A.
ISBN 10: 0804802521
ISBN 13: 9780804802529
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ABE BOOKS:
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(approx: $140 new/ from as lttle as $26 second hand..but what condition...?)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsushi…