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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Hokusai, game characters light up Tokyo Bay

The "Water Projection Mapping" event is held at Odaiba Marine Park in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

A visual presentation featuring Katsushika Hokusai's ukiyo-e woodblock paintings was projected onto an enormous screen of water in Tokyo's Odaiba area.

The show was held as part of "hokusai & TOKYO: Mizube o Irodoru Edo Matsuri" (Hokusai & Tokyo: Colorful waterside Edo festival), which took place on Saturday.

The "Water Projection Mapping" show was seen on a 20-meter-high, 40-meter-wide water screen made of sprayed sea water at Odaiba Marine Park. Lasting for about 10 minutes, it combined Hokusai's artwork and characters from the popular game "Fate/Grand Order," with a night view of Tokyo Bay as a backdrop.

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