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Category Archives: Edo
Kabuki All-Stars #3 Benkei
To download this Benkei Kabuki card as a PDF, click this link.
Sugoroku Magic – Narukami shonin
Below the great rat of Yoshitaka on the sugoroku board we are featuring, is this splendid figure in feiry robes and clouds of smoke. It is the magician Narukami. Narukami lived in a hermitage near a waterfall in which he … Continue reading
Posted in Edo, Floating World, ghosts, Japanese Demon, Kunisada, Magical, supernatural Japanese print, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art
Tagged ghosts, Narukami, Sugoroku, supernatural
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Sugoroku Magic – Shimidzu no Kwanja Yoshitaka
What a spendid rat! The magician riding along here is not Nikki Danjo – the great kabuki villain who transforms into a rat in order to steal a valuable scroll – this chap is Shimidzu no Kwanja Yoshitaka. He was … Continue reading
Sugoroku Magic – Jiraiya
A series of magicians and ghosts all taken from squares on a nineteenth century sugoroku board by the artist Kunichika Continue reading
Posted in Asian Art, Edo, Floating World, Japanese Art, kabuki theatre, Kunichika, Kunisada, Magical, Sugoroku, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art
Tagged Jiraiya, Kabuki, Ken Game, Magic, magician, manga, Sugoroku, Toad, Toad Magic
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Sugoroku Magic – Unryu-kuro
This tremendous image of a magician floating on a magical cloud-dragon is the neighbour of the image of the Ghost of Seigen – the previous entry- from the stunning supernatural Sugoroku board we are showing at the Toshidama Gallery… the … Continue reading
Posted in Edo, Floating World, ghosts, Japanese Demon, japanese woodblock prints, Kunichika, Sugoroku, supernatural Japanese print, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e art, Woodblock print
Tagged dragon, dragon cloud, floating world, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kunichika, Kunichika print, Sugoroku, Toshidama Gallery, Unryu-kuro
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Sugoroku Magic – The Ghost of Seigen
The picture above is the first detail in our series taken from the stunning supernatural Sugoroku board showing at the Toshidama Gallery. It is a sort of compendium of ghosts, magicians, magic creatures and so on. This is the ‘last … Continue reading
The Pirate Chief Kezori Kyuemon
What an amazing image this is… its a fabulous woodblock print by the nineteenth century artist Kunichika and it depicts the great actor of the kabuki theatre, Ichikawa Danjuro IX as the Pirate Chief Kezori Kyuemon from the play, Hakata … Continue reading
Posted in Edo, Floating World, Ichikawa Danjuro, Japanese Art, Japanese Art Gallery, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Kunichika, Meiji Art, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, Uncategorized, utagawa
Tagged Ichikawa Danjuro, Kunichika print, Mica Woodblock, Pirates
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A Sunday Afternoon; Where?
This painting by the great Post-impressionist and Pointillist painter Georges Seurat (above) seems to be the very essence of Frenchness… A Sunday Afternoon at the Grande Jatte… what could be more Parisian, more moderne than this elegant display of European … Continue reading
Posted in Asian Art, Edo, Floating World, Impressionist Art, japanese woodblock prints, Matisse, Seurat, Toshidama Gallery.
Tagged Japanese prints, Toyokuni I, Utagawa School
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Kunichika & The Meiji
May the 20th sees the launch of a new show at the Toshidama Gallery. The exhibition looks at the work of Toyohara Kunichika, (1835-1900), and his fellow artists. There are some very fine prints indeed on show and for sale, … Continue reading
Posted in Demoiselles d'Avignon, Edo, Floating World, geisha, Japanese Eyebrows, japanese hair styling, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Kiyochika, Kunichika, Meiji Art, Okubi-e, Picasso, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, utagawa
Tagged Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kunichika, Kunichika print, Toyohara Kunichika, Ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, Utagawa School
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Buying Japanese Woodblock Prints… a Print per Day at Toshidama Gallery
Chikanobu (1838 – 1912) Jidai kagami (A mirror of the ages): The Bunsei era (1818 – 1830); Upper Inset: Dancer and people in front of a sign for nishiki-e, 1897 The photograph doesn’t do any justice at all to this … Continue reading
Posted in Art Collector, Asian Art, Chikanobu, Edo, Hirosada, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Meiji Art, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art
Tagged floating world, japanese art, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, kabuki theatre, Toshidama Gallery, Ukiyo-e, Utagawa School
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