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Basho

Waterfalls of Japan

Oshika Waterfall, or Ohga-daki “Big Deer Waterfall”, near Wakasa Town in Tottori Prefecture, Japan

In Japan, waterfalls are more than beautiful cascades – they shape ritual and belief, belong to a landscape sustained by flowing water, and have long stirred the artistic imagination, from Bashō’s poems to Hokusai’s woodblock prints.

Filed Under: Documentary Tagged With: Basho, Hokusai, Japan Waterfalls, Japanese art, Japanese landscape, Landscape photography, Long exposure photography, Shinto, Waterfall Photography, Waterfalls

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