Sport 42: 2014
Pictures From the Floating World
Pictures From the Floating World
Don’t fret for the rowers huddled beneath
The Great Wave. Those squadrons of white talons
are foam, and where harbours are hidden by
the trough, a summit pokes through. The other
thirty-five views of Mount Fuji tell
the same story: an old god offering
a bearing. Among the residents of
ancient Edo, little eclipsed the awe
nurtured on the Kanto Plain. Certainly
Hokusai, for all his range, did not picture
their great beyond from a higher place.
A snow-caked cone, say, from an exit row
to Izumo. These shots of an idle
crater, before it was capped by a wing.