Category Archives: senso-e

War; Regret and Loss

Posted on June 3, 2019 by toshidama

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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All Change! Change in Japanese Woodblock Prints of the NIneteenth century.

Posted on March 31, 2017 by toshidama

Beisaku, Distant View of Fengtianfu – The Bivouac of Japanese Troops, 1894 The current exhibition at the Toshidama Gallery looks at how change in Japanese society in the nineteenth century was envisioned in the woodblock prints which were the dominant … Continue reading →

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Brexit, Isolationism and the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Posted on June 27, 2016 by toshidama

There’s no political agenda to this post whatsoever… although it seems that the parallels that exist between Tokugawa era Japan and the current state of the United Kingdom are too close not to merit comment in some way, however small. … Continue reading →

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China and Japan – A Brief History of Conflict

Posted on September 24, 2012 by toshidama

The more than century-long territorial dispute between China and Japan has been in the news over the last few weeks, this time because of the disputed ownership of the tiny island chain which the Japanese call Senkaku and the Chinese … Continue reading →

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