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422230 asked: what kind of paper/canvas was used for Sekino's "Oregon Cascade range" ?
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A Strange Tale of Castaways: A Western Kabuki by...
A Strange Tale of Castaways: A Western Kabuki (Hyôryû Kidan Seiyô Kabuki 漂流奇談西洋劇) by Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900)
Kunichika portrays a scene from the “cropped-hair” play A Strange Tale of Castaways: A Western Kabuki. Written by the renowned playwright Kawatake Shinshichi II (1816-1893), it tells the tale of a “fisherman [Shimizu no Mihozō] who is separated from his...
October 2011
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Rikio Takahashi 高橋力雄 (1917-1999) - a master...
Rikio Takahashi specialized in depicting the forms of the Japanese garden, especially the classic gardens of Kyoto. He was the son of a ‘Nihonga’ (“Japanese-style painting”) artist and from 1949-1955 became an important pupil of the seminal figure in Japanese printmaking, Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955), whose late non-representational style had a significant influence....
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Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927) - The Artist who...
Tsukioka Kôgyo 月岡耕漁 (1869-1927) Kōgyo was born the year after the beginning of the Meiji restoration, which brought Japan into the modern Western world. While this was to be a period of great political and social upheaval in Japanese society, Kōgyo’s work was largely focused on the traditional, the theater of Noh. In his lifetime he created over 550 prints, in three print series, ...
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Imoseyama Onna Teikin (Imoseyama, an Example of...
Imoseyama Onna Teikin, 1883 by Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900)
Actors (from right to left): Nakamura Shikan IV 市川団十郎 in the role of Daihanji no Kyozumi 大判司清澄 Ichikawa Sadanji 市川左団次 in the role of Koganosuke 久我之介 Ichikawa Danjûrô IX 市川団十郎 in the role of Dazai Kōshitsu Sadaka 貞高後室 Nakamura Fukusuke IV 中村福介 in the role of Hinadori 雛どり
Kunichika depicts the famous scene Yoshinogawa from the...
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Famous Products of Japan (Dai Nippon Bussan Zue...
A series of 120 prints highlighting the economic activity of the various provinces of Japan by the artist Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842–1894) published by Ohkura Magobei in 1877. On August 21 of 1877, the first National Industrial Exposition (Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai) opened at Ueno Park, lasting until November. The prints were likely published with this major event in mind, although there is no...
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Actors with Fox (Dog?) Faces in Scene from Heroes...
The kanji script on the frontispiece will probably confirm whether this print is portraying the same scene as the Kuniyoshi print on the right. I think some of the kanji characters are obsolete and not currently used, so it might be hard to read. Help in transcribing the kanji into modern characters or even rough translation into English would be very much appreciated!
A high resolution...
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yajifun:
The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints: Another “Famous View” of Tokyo by Hiroshige III
ilmjh:
The artist Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842–1894) designed at least nine different series of prints showing similar depictions of Tokyo landmarks. This scene shows Edobashi (橋戸江) Bridge in the foreground with the First National Bank (daiichi kokuritsu ginko 一国立銀行), constructed...
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Another "Famous View" of Tokyo by Hiroshige III
The artist Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842–1894) designed at least nine different series of prints showing similar depictions of Tokyo landmarks. This scene shows Edobashi (橋戸江) Bridge in the foreground with the First National Bank (daiichi kokuritsu ginko 一国立銀行), constructed in 1872 by Shimizu Kisuke II in the background (partially covered by the title cartouche.) As in all “famous...
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Kyodo risshi no motoi "Instructive Models of Lofty...
My thanks to Yajifun for posting the transcriptions (in Japanese) for the Japanese woodblock series of prints titled Kyodo risshi no motoi (Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition.) Additional information on this series of prints is provided below. I extracted it from the website that displays my collection of over 500 Japanese woodblock prints www.myjapanesehanga.com
About The Series “Kyōdō...
