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Tag Archives: Shunga
What to Look for in a Japanese Print
Hiroshige Spring Rain from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road, 1832 It is easy to slip into an enthusiasm, to think we know our way around a subject without standing back and taking an overview. As for early … Continue reading
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
Nishiki-e in Osaka and Edo
Yoshitoshi, Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata, 1881 Aha! The hated colour. A theme that we keep returning to is the ‘decadence’ of the nineteenth century Japanese woodblock print. The ‘rot’ really set in though in the eighteenth century, with … Continue reading
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Tagged 108 Suikoden, Harunobu, Hirosada, iki, Japanese prints, japonisme, kuniyoshi, Moronobu, Nishiki-e, Shunga, Toyokuni I, Ukiyo-e, wabi-sabi, Yoshitoshi
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Dekiyo-e – The Horror, The Horror!
Alex Faulkner interviewed by Chris Bucklow. Alex Faulkner is the creative director of the Toshidama Gallery and an expert on nineteenth century Japanese prints. Alex is also a practising artist. Christopher Bucklow is an artist of international standing and an … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Bucklow, Dekiyo-e, floating world, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kabuki, Kunichika, Kunisada, kuniyoshi, otokodate, Shunga, Shunsho, Ukiyo-e, Utamaro
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Francis Bacon and Japanese Prints: The Arena of the Senses
I have never read an art historian who has made any connection between the iconic paintings of the 20th century English artist Francis Bacon and the Japanese woodblock prints of the 19th century… which is surprising. I must suppose that … Continue reading
Sex, tea and theatre: Haiku’s rude sister, the Senryu
Japanese poetry is a hard thing to write about or to explain in the west – it seems to me sometimes a travesty to do so – nevertheless the Japanese poetic imagination informs all Japanese culture and at every level, … Continue reading
Lost in The Realm of the Senses
“… living only for the moment, savouring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms, and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking sake, and diverting oneself just in floating, unconcerned by the prospect of imminent poverty, buoyant and carefree, like a gourd … Continue reading
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Tagged Ai no Corrida, floating world, In the Realm of the Senses, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kabuki, Nagisa Oshima, shinju, Shunga, Ukiyo-e
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Now you see it, Now you Can’t… Shunga at the British Museum
I guess that my first exposure to Japanese prints would have been in the 1970’s. At that time there was little or no interest in Japanese art in England. There was however a publishing frenzy on the subject of erotica. … Continue reading
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Tagged British Museum, Japanese prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Richard Hamilton, Shunga, Shunga at the British Museum, Sir Kenneth Clarke, Ukiyo-e, Utamaro
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The Naked and the Nude
Sir Kenneth Clark opens his book The Nude, with the following phrase: The English language, with its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between the naked and the nude. To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies … Continue reading
Japanese Shunga Prints – Art or Pornography?
It is the fashion, especially among connoisseurs, to make distinctions between erotica and pornography. However, it seems to me disingenuous to describe some images as pornographic and others as erotic when the distinction is only contextual or at least subjective. … Continue reading