Tokyo photographers auction prints for quake relief

We’ve previously looked at ways to donate money to help the people of northeastern Japan rebuild after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami there. To those recommendations we can add a creative initiative from a group of Tokyo-based photographers who are putting their best works up for auction.

Visitors to the Flickr group Charity Print Auctions can browse the hundreds of photos available and bid, via a donation to an approved organization, for the right to receive a high-quality print of their choice in the mail.

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Japanese woodblock prints reveal Meiji-era medical knowledge

Japanese woodblock prints, known as as ukiyo-e, are usually referred to as “Pictures of the floating world”, representing the impermanent fleeting beauty of life, or of other worlds. But in a collection from the University of California San Francisco, some are also revealed to be informative and very much about the dangers of mundane every day life.

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