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274247 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2021‑07‑30 wooden Japanese bridges
Just today I finished paging and reading through a lovely book by Matthi 
Forrer, titled Hiroshige, about the renowned and prolific Japanese 
ukiyo-e wood-block printing artist Utagawa Hiroshige, of the 1800s. 
Known most famously perhaps as the creator of the work "Under the Great 
Wave off Kanagawa",  popularly known as "the Wave", "the Great Wave" 
also 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', though he is known to have created 
some 8000 works.

https://www.hiroshige.org.uk/

But I digress. Quite a number of his works include images of wooden 
bridges, some of them seemingly very long, and built of wood. And it 
occurred to me I've never seen or read anything about historic Japanese 
wooden bridge building. Can anyone point me to a source of information?

Don

-- 
“What we are seeing is a decision by the government to get as many people
infected as possible, as quickly as possible,
while using rhetoric about caution as a way of putting the blame on the public
for the consequences...”
- Prof Robert West, health psychologist, University College, London

"extremist individualism … an ideology that claims to be about freedom when
really it means selfishness”.
274248 John M. Johnston <jmjhnstn@m...> 2021‑07‑30 Re: wooden Japanese bridges
https://youtu.be/PYkgEf3eWqA



John M. Johnston

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therefore I beg you to write and let me know.” - Sir Boyle Roche, M.P.


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Just today I finished paging and reading through a lovely book by Matthi
Forrer, titled Hiroshige, about the renowned and prolific Japanese
ukiyo-e wood-block printing artist Utagawa Hiroshige, of the 1800s.
Known most famously perhaps as the creator of the work "Under the Great
Wave off Kanagawa",  popularly known as "the Wave", "the Great Wave"
also 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', though he is known to have created
some 8000 works.

https://www.hiroshige.org.uk/

But I digress. Quite a number of his works include images of wooden
bridges, some of them seemingly very long, and built of wood. And it
occurred to me I've never seen or read anything about historic Japanese
wooden bridge building. Can anyone point me to a source of information?

Don

--
“What we are seeing is a decision by the government to get as many people
infected as possible, as quickly as possible,
while using rhetoric about caution as a way of putting the blame on the public
for the consequences...”
- Prof Robert West, health psychologist, University College, London

"extremist individualism … an ideology that claims to be about freedom when
really it means selfishness”.
274251 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2021‑07‑30 Re: wooden Japanese bridges
Tremendous. Thanks!

Don

On 2021-07-30 4:47 a.m., John M Johnston (jmjhnstn) wrote:
> https://youtu.be/PYkgEf3eWqA
>
>
> *John M. Johnston*
>
> /“P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been 
> miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.”/- Sir Boyle 
> Roche, M.P.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* oldtools@g...  on behalf of Don 
> Schwartz via groups.io 
> *Sent:* Friday, July 30, 2021 2:19:52 AM
> *To:* old tools list 
> *Subject:* [oldtools] wooden Japanese bridges
> CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do 
> not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender 
> and trust the content is safe.
>
>
> Just today I finished paging and reading through a lovely book by Matthi
> Forrer, titled Hiroshige, about the renowned and prolific Japanese
> ukiyo-e wood-block printing artist Utagawa Hiroshige, of the 1800s.
> Known most famously perhaps as the creator of the work "Under the Great
> Wave off Kanagawa",  popularly known as "the Wave", "the Great Wave"
> also 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', though he is known to have created
> some 8000 works.
>
> https://www.hiroshige.org.uk/
>
> But I digress. Quite a number of his works include images of wooden
> bridges, some of them seemingly very long, and built of wood. And it
> occurred to me I've never seen or read anything about historic Japanese
> wooden bridge building. Can anyone point me to a source of information?
>
> Don
>
> --
> “What we are seeing is a decision by the government to get as many 
> people infected as possible, as quickly as possible,
> while using rhetoric about caution as a way of putting the blame on 
> the public for the consequences...”
> - Prof Robert West, health psychologist, University College, London
>
> "extremist individualism … an ideology that claims to be about freedom 
> when really it means selfishness”.
>
>
>
> 
>
>

-- 
“What we are seeing is a decision by the government to get as many people
infected as possible, as quickly as possible,
while using rhetoric about caution as a way of putting the blame on the public
for the consequences...”
- Prof Robert West, health psychologist, University College, London

"extremist individualism … an ideology that claims to be about freedom when
really it means selfishness”.

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