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Under the Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji · c. 1831
Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e) from Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Three oshiokuri-bune boats struggle against a cresting wave while Mount Fuji appears small at the horizon. This layer references the impression held at The Met (accession JP1847).
Folio from the Sūrnāme-i Hümāyūn
Attributed to Nakkaş Osman and his atelier · Istanbul · c. 1582–83
A folio from the imperial festival book chronicling the 1582 circumcision festivities of Prince Mehmed, depicting a guild procession through the Hippodrome. Watercolour and gold on paper. Topkapı Palace Museum Library, Hazine 1344.
Debussy, La Mer, and the Great Wave
A short essay tracing the well-documented influence of Hokusai's wave on Claude Debussy's 1905 orchestral work La Mer. The 1905 Durand edition score cover reproduced the print at the composer's request.
GeoCities — HeartlandPlains cache recovery
Recovered from the Internet Archive's GeoCities preservation project · 1996–2009
An index page recovered from the HeartlandPlains GeoCities neighborhood, preserved alongside its HTTP headers, embedded MIDI track, and guestbook transcript.
Khipu UR-113 — Museo Larco collection
Inka period · camelid and cotton fibre · 15th–16th c.
A 72-cord khipu in the Museo Larco collection, catalogued UR-113. Its knot sequences are partially decoded through ongoing collaboration with practicing Andean weavers.
Commemorative head of an Ọba
Edo peoples, Benin kingdom · brass · early 16th c.
A commemorative brass head of an Ọba, cast by the royal guild of brass-casters of Benin City. Several comparable heads are held across European and African collections; their provenance is under active review through the Benin Dialogue Group.
Wave grammar — generative study set
A set of 24 AI-generated compositional variations on the Great Wave, produced as a study aid and explicitly marked generative. Source model and seed documented.
After Hokusai — hanga study in natural indigo
Living knot grammar — UR-113 re-reading
Wax-residue analysis — on the original casting process
Prussian blue stratigraphy across the Thirty-Six Views
Folk-craft grammar of the early web
After Nakkaş Osman — procession study in cinnabar
On processional composition as grammar
Pigment-layer stratigraphy of Hazine 1344
Conservation report — Met impression JP1847
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