And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, March 12, 2021
Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883-1957) - Fuji Seen from Tagonoura, 1940
That is my beau ideal of illustration. As real as a photograph, yet better.
ReplyDeleteThe wheels and the horse date the period to outside the Edo period. Wheels were forbidden. Human muscle power carried everything.
ReplyDeleteI like it; it has a dreamlike Maxfield Parish look.
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