This richly-coloured woodblock print is from Utagawa Hiroshige's popular Views of Mount Fuji series, dating to 1858.
It depicts a tea-house that has been built on stilts over the shoreline. Visitors in the tea-house look down above the almost deserted beach where a few figures are seen walking along the dramatic coast.
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🌊 Seven-mile Beach in Sagami Province, Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858. EA1971.259
Archeology | 11.03.2009
German Researchers Discover Stone Age Footwear
The well-preserved footwear dating back to the Stone Age, is of great historical significance, the head of Stuttgart's City Council Johannes Schmalzl said on Tuesday, March 10.
He described the find as a "small sensation," comparing it to fragments of clothing once worn by Oetzi, an Alpine ice man whose 5,000-year-old mummified body was discovered in a melting glacier in the nearby Alps in 1991.
The European size 36 sandal, made of woven wood, was discovered in silt deposits on the site of an early settlement of lake dwellings built on stilts at the water's edge.
Schmalzl said European Union funds would be used to research and preserve the areas where lake dwellings existed, on Lake Constance and Lake Zurich in neighboring Switzerland.
The settlements were inhabited between the 4th and 1st Century BC.
The remains, preserved for thousands of years by layers of silt, are under threat as a result of climate change, harbor construction and passing ships.
"This underwater archive is in danger," Schmalzl said.
The team working on protecting the ancient dwellings are ultimately hoping for UNESCO designation as a World Heritage Site. They say it will help them to better protect the area and keep it closed to tourists.
"We don't want a Hollywood on stilts under water," Schmalzl said.
stilt・ed
━━ a. 竹馬に乗った; 〔けなして〕 （文体など）誇張した; 固苦しい.
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Stilts are poles, posts or pillars used to allow a person or structure to stand at a certain distance above the ground. Walking stilts are poles equipped with steps for the feet to stand on, or straps to attach them to the legs, for the purpose of walking while elevated above a normal height. In flood plains, and on beaches or unstable ground, buildings are often constructed on stilts to protect them from damage by water, waves or shifting soil or sand.
stiltwalk/stiltwalking 踩高翹
Richard Strauss was the ultimate professional, even in the planning of his own life span. The “Four Last Songs” and “Metamorphosen” for string orchestra complete the far curve of a symmetrical career. Proust’s metaphor for growing old was a man walking on stilts, which grow taller as he ages, making the view ever better but the walk increasingly wobbly.better
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