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A Teahouse of the August Moon…
Well, not quite. I wanted to look at a new print at the Toshidama Gallery; a superb Yoshikazu image of a teahouse in Yokohama from 1861. It’s an outstanding image, it opens up an impossible series of spaces, bridges, walkways, … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese prints, Sugoroku, ukiyo-e, Uncategorized, Yokohama, Yoshiwara
Tagged Gankiro Teahouse, Hiroshige II, Japanese prints, Ukiyo-e, Yoshiiku, Yoshikazu
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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
Magical Sugoroku
A sugoroku board that is a a good compendium of Japanese magicians and supernatural stories. Continue reading
Posted in ghosts, Kunichika, Magical, Sugoroku, supernatural Japanese print, Uncategorized
Tagged Game board, ghosts, Japanese Magic, Jiraiya, Kunichika, magician, slug magic, spider magic, Sugoroku, supernatural
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Collecting Japanese Woodblock Prints
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
War; Regret and Loss
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
Posted in Asian Art, Japanese Art, Japanese Art Gallery, Japanese Poetry, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, Kiyochika, Male Tragedy, Male Tragedy in Japanese Prints, Meiji Art, musha-e, senso-e, Sino-Japanese War, ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, Uncategorized, yoshitoshi
Tagged Beisaku, Walt Whitman
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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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Woodblocks for Printing
It’s very very hard to explain to people, and still harder for most people to imagine how the delicate, ephemeral, jewel-like images on Japanese woodblock prints can be made from great thick chunks of timber… or how the sharp hair’s … Continue reading