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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
Alan Watts Blues – the Khakkhara
It is a pleasing and thought provoking circularity… the words of Alan Watts, the sensations of Japanese Zen, the beauty of the woodblock prints, the thoughts of Druid Heights, the words of the Chinese poet of the 9th century and the music of Van Morrison… . Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Kunichika, Kunisada, Uncategorized
Tagged Alan Watts, Druid Heights, khakkhara, Kunichika, Van Morrison
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Toshidama Gallery Blog 2018
It has been nearly a year since we published articles on this WordPress blog. Nevertheless the Toshidama Gallery has been busier than ever elsewhere with exhibitions, publications and real world activities. This is a gratifyingly popular blog, attracting several thousand … Continue reading
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Christopher Bucklow at Southampton City Art Gallery
The celebrated international artist Christopher Bucklow is well known to followers of the Toshidama Gallery. The artist is currently celebrating a lifetime retrospective of paintings and photographs at the Southampton City Art Gallery in England. Toshidama Gallery director, Alex Faulkner … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Bucklow, Japanese Art Gallery, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Kunisada, Paul Gauguin, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, Uncategorized
Tagged Chris Bucklow, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kabuki, Kunisada, Toshidama Gallery, Ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art
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Male Tragedy in Japanese Woodblock Prints
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
Escape in Japanese Woodblock Prints
It’s the function of art, isn’t it, to offer some escape… maybe to make a space to slip into that leaves aside the stresses and the anxieties of the now. That was certainly the intention of ukiyo-e… (Japanese woodblock prints) … Continue reading
