Tag: ukiyo-e

  • Shiroki Sand Dunes Story Inspiration

    Shiroki Sand Dunes Story Inspiration

    My short story, “Shiroki Sand Dunes” is a modern-day magical realism story inspired by an ukiyo-e print made in the Edo period. This woodblock print, New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji, was created by one of the masters of Ukiyo-e, Hiroshige Utagawa, around 1857. The Met Museum website has a great write-up…