Category Archives: Kuniyoshi

The Beautiful Image of Fuji Appearing in an Awning…

Posted on February 17, 2017 by

Kuniyoshi’s Virtuous Women for the Eight Views analysed and how Hokusai’s Mount Fuji appears in the awning. Continue reading →

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

Posted on January 24, 2017 by

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

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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Five Years of the Toshidama Gallery

Posted on October 5, 2015 by

It’s been 5 year since the Toshidama Gallery launched its online gallery, with themed virtual exhibitions and extensive catalogue notes, and to celebrate we are holding a show looking back over the past five years – and offering an extra … Continue reading →

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Dekiyo-e – The Horror, The Horror!

Posted on June 2, 2015 by

Alex Faulkner interviewed by Chris Bucklow. Alex Faulkner is the creative director of the Toshidama Gallery and an expert on nineteenth century Japanese prints. Alex is also a practising artist. Christopher Bucklow is an artist of international standing and an … Continue reading →

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Kuniyoshi’s Faithful Samurai – The Bathos of Victory

Posted on March 17, 2014 by

I was struck, looking at some of the very beautiful images from Kuniyoshi’s 1847 series of the 47 Ronin, by the bathos of the figures – the tremendous sense of anticlimax that runs through so many of the prints. This … Continue reading →

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A Tale of the Tengu – Yoshitoshi’s Debt to Kuniyoshi

Posted on September 2, 2013 by

Toshidama Gallery are celebrating the work of Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839 – 1892) this month with a show of twenty-one of his woodblock prints. One of the best pieces in the exhibition is Ushiwaka Maru learns Martial Arts From Sojobo, King … Continue reading →

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