Awhale and three fish sitting down to a formal dinner of Russian sailors - Kobayashi Kiyochika (1904) 🇯🇵

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This looks like concept art for Bojack Horseman
- This just in
This has got to have something to do with the Russo-Japanese War, fighting over the Kuril Islands between Hokkaido and Kamchatka.
- Yes I believe so. 1904-5. The Russians lost a lot of battleships in comparison to Japan. At that time spectators would have looked down on little Japan and it's military ambitions, then things changed a lot :0
  
  What the heck...? Your link leads to a Vermeer. Not to say that it's not an amazing painting.
What a great image. Thanks, I've a new phone wallpaper now.

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