Millions of dollars in green financing intended to help Indonesia reduce its carbon emissions have been invested in a project that is destroying #rainforest in Papua, one of the world’s most biodiverse landscapes.
Via The Gecko Project
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Lot 01073
N.1 triptych of ukiyo-e woodblock prints
Toyohara Chikanobu
EXCURSION TO ENOSHIMA
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#triptych #woodblockprints #ukiyoe #chikanobu #excursion #enoshima #bay #courtladies #fisherwomen #beach #mountfuji #imperial #japan #japan ese #art #japan eseart
THE FOX PRIEST Hakuzōsu (白蔵主) is a wonderful part of Japanese folklore; shown transforming from priest into wild fox in a Woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi & depicted in Japanese Netsuke carvings, popular during the Edo period in Japan 1615–1868 #folklorethursday
#AuctionUpdate Four bidders vied for Katsushika Hokusai’s seminal print, 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' (The Great Wave) from 1831. The first Japanese print to ever appear in a Modern & Contemporary evening sale at Sotheby’s, it makes $968k / £762k at #SothebysLondon