Converse All-Stars team up with two all-stars of Japanese art for Wave, Skull ukiyo-e shoes【Pics】 – SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Hokusai and Kuniyoshi for your feet

Converse’s All-Stars’ most significant specialty is that they’re made with canvas. Of program, canvas can likewise be made use of in making art, and those two applications are integrating in a set of gorgeous brand-new footwear including the job of two of one of the most popular painters in Japanese background, Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

Both musicians are best understood for their production of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, with the Hokusai footwear presenting his most well-known job, and perhaps one of the most identified item from the totality of Japanese art background, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

Originally repainted in 1831, The Great Wave off Kanagawa portrays an imposing tidal bore in the spinning seas of Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo’s next-door neighbor to the south,with Mt Fuji noticeable distant Putting the print on a high-top footwear in fact includes a fascinating …