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Those famous Japanese weaves we may have seen featured in a variety of media comes originally from an artwork made by famous Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika, who made woodblock prints known as Ukiyo-e. They are intended to mean the incredible force of nature and how weak and small human beings are when confronted with it.

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