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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
Posted in 47 Ronin, Chushingura, Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, kabuki theatre, Kunichika, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, ukiyo-e, Uncategorized
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 Japanese Inspired Poster by Annie Offterdinger
I was very struck recently by a book of original Art Deco designs that came up at auction, one of which was a fashion plate, or poster by a less known German illustrator, Annie Offterdinger. What struck me so much … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese Art, japanese woodblock prints, Kunichika, Paul Gauguin, ukiyo-e
Tagged floating world, German Art Deco, Japanese prints, Kunichika, Offterdinger, Ukiyo-e
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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
Sugoroku Magic – Unryu-kuro
This tremendous image of a magician floating on a magical cloud-dragon is the neighbour of the image of the Ghost of Seigen – the previous entry- from the stunning supernatural Sugoroku board we are showing at the Toshidama Gallery… the … Continue reading
Posted in Edo, Floating World, ghosts, Japanese Demon, japanese woodblock prints, Kunichika, Sugoroku, supernatural Japanese print, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e art, Woodblock print
Tagged dragon, dragon cloud, floating world, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kunichika, Kunichika print, Sugoroku, Toshidama Gallery, Unryu-kuro
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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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Omiwa
Toshidama Gallery has had an online break of a few months but we are launching a new show with new prints for the spring of 2019. The collection of prints will have some outstanding examples of nineteenth century Japanese woodblock … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese prints, japanese woodblock prints, Kunichika, Okubi-e, ukiyo-e
Tagged Kunichika, okubi-e, Omiwa, Ukiyo-e
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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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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
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Tagged Alan Watts, Druid Heights, khakkhara, Kunichika, Van Morrison
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