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Category Archives: ukiyo-e art
GOING GOING GONE! part two…
In the previous post we had a brief look at the mystification and the unhappiness that rapid technological change had upon the Japanese of the mid-nineteenth century… how their traditional ways were undermined by the sudden influx of gas lamps, … Continue reading
Michizane and the Inner Demon
The chuban woodblock print above is of an actor in the role of the medieval courtier and diplomat, Sugawara no Michizane. There’s very little to go on when teasing information from it… the cursive script in the cartouche doesn’t tell … Continue reading
Posted in Edo, Japanese Art, Japanese prints, Japanese Temple, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Kunisada, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, Woodblock print
Tagged art, Hasegawa Sadanobu II, japan, Japanese prints, Kanshoji, Kanshojo, Michizane, Plum Blossom, poetry, Sugawara, travel, Ukiyo-e
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Japanese Scrolls, Shunsen and Images of the Exotic
The Toshidama Gallery is currently showing an important collection of five vertical diptychs by the artist Katsukawa Shunsen (1762-1830). All five in the set were once mounted on hanging scrolls that were considerably longer than the double oban print. The … Continue reading
Posted in Bijin, Floating World, geisha, Japanese prints, Japanese Scrolls, japanese woodblock prints, Puccini, Shunsen, ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, Yoshiwara
Tagged Bijin, Bijin-ga, floating world, Geisha, Japanese prints, Japanese Scrolls, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Oiran, Shunsen, Ukiyo-e
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New Japanese Woodblock Prints at Toshidama Gallery
We are very happy indeed after a long break of six months to be able to put a selection of nearly twenty new prints online at the Toshidama Gallery. A new show, Ukiyo-e Characters, will go online on Friday the … Continue reading
Posted in Hirosada, Ichikawa Kodanji, Japanese Art, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Kunichika, Kunisada, Okubi-e, Osaka Prints, Toyokuni III, ukiyo-e art
Tagged Hirosada, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kabuki, Kunichika, Kunisada, Toshidama Gallery, Ukiyo-e, Yoshitora
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Tales in Japanese Woodblock Prints
The January 2022 exhibition at the Toshidama Gallery looks at prints that tell a story… which is of course the vast majority of the output of Japanese kabuki theatre and history prints. The absence of still-life for example, and the … Continue reading
Toyokuni III (1786-1865) Actors at the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi) #4: Kanagawa Station, 1852.
Probably one of the most successful editions of woodblock prints of all time, Kunisada’s inspired and justly famous series of actors and the stations of the Tokaido Road marries two of the most popular genres of ukiyo-e into one theme. … Continue reading
Telegraph Poles and Marcel Duchamp, Yoshimori and Puvis de Chavannes
The enigmatic picture above by the Japanese artist Yoshimori, is something of a favourite. It belongs to a long series of prints by various artists celebrating the many post stations along the long Tokaido Highway that connects the administrative capital … Continue reading
A Portrait of Ichimura Uzaemon XIII
On these pages are some light hearted guides to the villains and heroes of the kabuki stage. We’re calling them ‘Kabuki All-stars’. The current exhibition at the Toshidama Gallery called Ten Artists of the Floating World, features twenty three prints … Continue reading
Kabuki All-Stars #4 Ishikawa Goemon
To download this Ishikawa Goemon Kabuki card as a PDF, click this link.
Figures and Backgrounds in Ukiyo-e
Japanese woodblock prints liberate the figure from the ground by either dipensing with it altogether, or by embedding it like in marquetry, or by creating a series of flat cut outs arranged in shallow space – like the flats in a theatre. The figure can be turned into the complex system of signs and symbols that create narrative or else be involved in the complex visual game of ‘mitate’ where people and things stand for or make equivalence with other things… naturalism as known in the west is not part of the repetoire of ukiyo-e artists, their game was more complicated Continue reading
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