Category Archives: Architecture

Japanese Prints on Drawing Matter

Posted on December 2, 2022 by toshidama

We have recently been asked to post an article on Japanese perspective on the excellent Drawing Matter website. For those of you unfamiliar with Drawing Matter, it is a creative organisation which explores the role of drawing in architectural thought … Continue reading →

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Toshidama… A Print per Day – Hiroshige

Posted on April 13, 2016 by toshidama

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto no Meisho): The Spiral Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats, Oban. 1834. This lovely, lovely print by Hiroshige is of a strange place indeed… one that no … Continue reading →

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Japan, Modernism and the Out-of-Town Store

Posted on August 1, 2012 by toshidama

It is a hard task to say definitively that this picture influenced this painting or this architect influenced this building. The strands and threads of art history are so entwined that the real story is often lost in the convenient … Continue reading →

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