Monthly Archives: January 2017

Will the British Museum be Host to Hokusai’s Kammachi Festival Float in May 2017?

Posted on January 24, 2017 by toshidama

The photograph at the top of this article appears at first glance to be a detail from the  famous woodblock print by the nineteenth century Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai: Kanagawami-oki nami-ura… The Great Wave, or its transliterated name, Under the … Continue reading →

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Male Tragedy in Japanese Woodblock Prints

Posted on January 6, 2017 by toshidama

Well, I guess that it’s deeply unfashionable right now to talk of the male struggle, the tragedy of the male and so on – there’s a contemporary trend to upbraid men for being… ‘pale, male and stale’. The fact is … Continue reading →

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Male Tragedy in Japanese Prints

Posted on January 6, 2017 by toshidama

Kunichika, The Tokaido Road Kabuki Theatre and Japanese Woodblock prints… the defining cultural artefacts of nineteenth century Japan. It’s hard to think of anything else which recounts the daily and national struggles of a people more than these two linked … Continue reading →

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