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Life Through a Deluxe Lens
By the middle of the nineteenth century in Japan, an extraordinary art form had developed which had taken the basic single-colour woodblock print, (a form of wet ink relief reproduction common for centuries in Europe and Asia) and made it … Continue reading
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Tagged Deluxe Woodblock Print, Hirosada, Ichikawa Danjuro, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kiyosada, Kunichika, Kunisada, Nishiki-e, Osaka Print, Ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art
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Japanese Prints and the Tradition of Story Telling
Complex narrative lies at the heart of traditional Japanese culture. From the very beginnings, the Japanese were devoted to the structure of sophisticated narrative. The first true novel, the 11th century Genji monogatari – “The Tale of the Genji”- is … Continue reading
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Tagged Genji Monogatari, Genpei War, Heiki Monogatari, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kabuki, Kunichika, Kunisada, kuniyoshi, Toshidama Gallery, Ukiyo-e
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Tales Of Old Japan
The new selection of prints online at Toshidama Japanese Prints takes inspiration from a book published by an English aristocrat in 1871. They are a random collection of folk tales, myths and stories from before the great modernisation of Japan … 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
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Jasper Johns: Skin and Oshiguma
The print pictured above is by the outstanding American artist Jasper Johns. The print was made by Johns coating his skin with oil and then impressing his face and hands onto a sensitised litho plate. Charcoal was rubbed onto the … Continue reading
Kabuki All-Stars #8 Matsuemon
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Kabuki All-Stars #7 Soga Goro
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Kabuki All Stars, #2 Danshichi
Download this Danshichi Kabuki card as a PDF by clicking this link.
Spring – What Spring?
The spring 2020 exhibition at the Toshidama Gallery was meant to be about spring. The joy of new life; cherry blossom, budding trees, love, birth, renewal… alas, how the world is plunged into fear and illness and despair. Life nevertheless … Continue reading
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
