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Ashinano vs Ma Yuan

For a while, this frame http://ykk.misago.org/Volume8/26-27 (the upper one) had me worried. I knew I had seen it before.

And suddenly I remembered where. It resembled a painting by Ma Yuan (active 1190-1225), precisely this one...

http://www.seattlecentral.edu/faculty/cmalody/T3ma/chinalandscape/12thc/walkingonpathinspring,mayuan,12th.jpg


The similarities goes beyond the composition. In Ma Yuan painting, the main character is a philosopher, a taoist I think, who watches the world... like Ashinano's Alpha...

Quite an artist, this Ashinano...

- DavidF
Thursday, October 27, 2005

Does the Taoist philosopher get dizzy and fall over in the next panel?

- Loran Gayton
Thursday, October 27, 2005

My first impulse is to find a YKK match for the Mona Lisa...

- Kerry Lourash
Thursday, October 27, 2005

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