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Women Preparing Tea Around the Fire-Holder (colour woodblock print)

5043736 Women Preparing Tea Around the Fire-Holder (colour woodblock print) by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: Surimono, two ladies and a boy, one of the ladies is making tea, kettle in hand, a tea-tray at her feet, the other holds a mirror in her hand while the boy looks on, a painted screen on right. Title: Two Women and Child by a Brazier, Signed: Saki no Hokusai Taito hitsu. The tool which the other woman holds is more like a round paper fan or a Huigo to make fire stronger. The poem starts from Torintei-Tokuma?, shows somewhere east place?, the first block of a poem mentions about Hurui teoke (a old pail) no Akechi no yo, and those words like tea, water and water well, are found from a whole poem.); Japanese, out of copyright

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The Hollow of the Deep Sea Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami ura) (colour woodblock

5044009 The Hollow of the Deep Sea Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami ura) (colour woodblock print) by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: Also known as The Great Wave or the Hollow of the Deep-sea Wave off Kanagawa. Huge wave rise breaking into claws of foam and scattering drops of foam like snow, about to fall between 2 boats beneath, Fuji seen through the waves. Signed: Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu, Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijud?).
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanju Rokkei)); Japanese, out of copyright

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Bristol Buckingham B Mk.I KV335

Bristol Buckingham B Mk.I KV335. A victim of failure to meet the original specification and the success of Mosquito day raid and night strategic bombing. The vast majority of the Buckinghams produced went straight to storage and/or conversion to transports. The transport conversions were also mostly delivered straight to storage and never flew again, until scrapped after the war. Date: 1944

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