Tag Archives: Baiko

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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Women of the Drowning World in Woodblock Prints.

Posted on February 17, 2017 by toshidama

Kunichika, The Hag of Adachi Moor. 1893 There are no pin-ups in nineteenth century Japanese prints. There aren’t any Odalisques, or Venuses departing the waves, (water cascading off cold, pert nipples); there aren’t any Susanna and the Elders or naked … Continue reading →

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Myths of the Stage… The Fantasy of Kabuki Woodblock Prints and Ziggy Stardust

Posted on June 30, 2016 by toshidama

Hirosada. Arashi Rikaku II as Nippon Daemon, 1852 Having just acquired some lithographic printed photographs of the actor, Onoe Kikugoro V, (Baiko), I was struck by how different the reality of the stage is when compared to the mystical… the … Continue reading →

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Kunichika and Baiko

Posted on May 19, 2016 by toshidama

Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), Ichimura Kakitsu, Tanosuke Sawamura, Sanjuro Seki The current exhibition which opens on the 20th of May 2016 at the Toshidama Gallery is looking at the work of Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), and his colleagues at the close of … Continue reading →

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Japanese Portraiture and the Graven Image

Posted on November 25, 2013 by toshidama

I’m being a little disingenuous with the title of this piece… there’s an intended pun on gravure (from relief printing) and the idea of a graven image (something carved and to be worshipped) – the word is also used in … Continue reading →

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