Category Archives: Japanese Art

Sugoroku Magic – Shimidzu no Kwanja Yoshitaka

Posted on July 30, 2019 by

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 →

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Sugoroku Magic – Jiraiya

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

A series of magicians and ghosts all taken from squares on a nineteenth century sugoroku board by the artist Kunichika Continue reading →

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Collecting Japanese Woodblock Prints

Posted on June 23, 2019 by

Prints From the collection of Ruth Muschel and Gillies McKenna at Wolfson College, Oxford. We attended the opening of an exhibition of Japanese prints from the private collection of ukiyo-e belonging to Ruth Muschel and Gillies McKenna at Wolfson College, … Continue reading →

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War; Regret and Loss

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

There’s been a great deal of media discussion about war in the UK press this week because it is the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day. War, conflict slaughter… sacrifice and duty, these are all common themes in Japanese prints. Martial events … Continue reading →

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The Pirate Chief Kezori Kyuemon

Posted on April 23, 2019 by

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 →

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Collecting Japanese Prints

Posted on December 6, 2018 by

Stock Clearance at Toshidama Gallery, December 2018 For the first time in eight years, the Toshidama Gallery is having a stock clearance sale, reducing the cost of dozens of prints to £100 only. Triptychs, such as the extremely rare and … Continue reading →

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Tattoo You – The Continuing Debt To Ukiyo-e

Posted on September 29, 2017 by

The newspapers have been very full of risque images from the 13th International London Tattoo Convention . It’s a huge event, tattoos cover any number of different body types, body parts and genders and there seems no end to the … Continue reading →

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