Seiko Kawachi’s “Take Off Hokusai XIIX”
河内成幸 – 翔べ北斎 (XIIX)
For the last few weeks in the art gallery in the Stevenson Union Building on the Southern Oregon University campus, there has been an exhibit featuring several Japanese artists. Today’s photo is of one of the works.
Japanese love to use words in a way that yields double meanings. The English rendition of this woodcut print clearly has a double meaning, but I don’t think 翔べ北斎 has the “knockoff” meaning that “take off” has in English. Native Japanese speakers, please correct me if I’m wrong.
More on the original Hokusai can be found in my earlier entry.