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British Museum Acquires Japanese Prints
There has been some welcome publicity for the brilliance, the genius of Japanese woodblock prints in the last few weeeks. The Guardian newspaper donated a large chunk of webspace to advertising the acquisition of some 359 Japanese prints by the … Continue reading
Posted in British Museum, Floating World, Japanese Art Gallery, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, yakusha-e
Tagged floating world, guardian newspaper, japanese art, Japanese prints, Kabuki, kabuki theatre, Kunichika, Kunichika print, Kunisada, yakusha-e
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Buying Japanese Woodblock Prints… a Print per Day at Toshidama Gallery
Chikanobu (1838 – 1912) Jidai kagami (A mirror of the ages): The Bunsei era (1818 – 1830); Upper Inset: Dancer and people in front of a sign for nishiki-e, 1897 The photograph doesn’t do any justice at all to this … Continue reading
Posted in Art Collector, Asian Art, Chikanobu, Edo, Hirosada, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Meiji Art, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art
Tagged floating world, japanese art, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, kabuki theatre, Toshidama Gallery, Ukiyo-e, Utagawa School
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Fumi-e, Christian Persecution in Tokugawa Japan… “Silence”, a New Film by Martin Scorsese
Yoshitoshi (1839 – 1892) One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Gen’i Composes a Poem to the Moon, 1887 The very lovely Japanese woodblock print above is of a Japanese Buddhist priest and diplomat of the sixteenth century called Gen’i. We … Continue reading
Toshidama Gallery… A Print per Day – Chikanobu
Toyohara Chikanobu (1838 – 1912) Jidai kagami (A Mirror of the Ages) The Tenwa Era This blog has been dormant for a while because of other commitments at the gallery. We are relaunching it this week to coincide with a … Continue reading
Otokodate – Black Sheep of the Floating World
It’s easy to use a phrase over and over without ever really thinking about it or explaining it in any great detail. The word Otokodate is one such instance and I … Continue reading
Posted in Clint Eastwood, Floating World, Japanese Art, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Kunichika, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Otokodate, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e art
Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Clint Eastwood, fistful of dollars, floating world, japanese art, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kabuki, Kunisada, kuniyoshi, otokodate, samurai, Seven Samurai, Toshidama Gallery, Toyohara Kunichika, Ukiyo-e
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In Advance of Kunisada
Toshidama Gallery is showing the later actor portraits of Utagawa Kunisada from the 20th of January. Art historians and art critics talk about artists having a ‘coherent body of work’, and sitting here in the office at the gallery, looking … Continue reading
Happy New Year From Toshidama Gallery
Toshidama Gallery would like to wish all its visitors a very happy and prosperous New Year. We have been moving the gallery over the last two weeks and hence there have been fewer blog posts on this and our other … Continue reading
Posted in Asian Art, Floating World, Japanese Art, Japanese Art Gallery, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, Kunisada, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e art
Tagged Asian Art, floating world, japanese art, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kunisada, Toshidama Gallery, Ukiyo-e
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The Pachyderm in the Room – Kuniyoshi’s Elephant
The elephant has long presented artists of all genres with a problem. The elephant is exotic, clearly enormous and spectacular but in captivity it lacks the dynamism, the heroism that its reputation suggests. Very few artists have successfully represented the … Continue reading
Japanese Prints In Context – Kunisada Warriors
It’s a fact of history that it is not always the person that first conceived something that is remembered so much as the person who made it famous. In ukiyo-e, this is particularly true of one of the nineteenth century’s … Continue reading
Posted in Eisen, Japanese Art, Japanese Art Gallery, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Shuntei, Suikoden, Tattoo Art, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e art
Tagged Eisen, floating world, japanese art, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kunisada, kuniyoshi, samurai, Shuntei, Suikoden, Toshidama Gallery, Ukiyo-e
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Imaginary Journeys – Hiroshige’s Tokaido Road
There are two recent publications celebrating Hiroshige’s views of Japan: Nancy Gaffield’s poem cycle Tokaido Road (C B Editions £7.99) and Taschen’s Hiroshige – 100 Famous Views of Edo. The former is an imaginary journey along the famous Tokaido highway; … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 Views of Edo, Asian Art, floating world, Hiroshige, Hokusai, japanese art, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Nancy Gaffield, Patrick Carey, Tokaido Road, Toshidama Gallery, Ukiyo-e
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