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Kunichika and Baiko
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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Tagged Baiko, Japanese Art Gallery, Japanese prints, Kabuki, Kunichika, Kunisada, okubi-e, Onoe Kikugoro V, Sharaku, Toshidama Gallery., Toyokuni I
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Japanese Prints and Their Place in the World – A Personal Appreciation by Alex Faulkner
Yoshitaki, Bando Hikosaburo and Arashi Rikan, 1850 It is five years since Toshidama Gallery made the decision to open an online, virtual exhibition space on the internet. In that time we have had nearly fifty dedicated and themed exhibitions, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Hirosada, Hiroshige, Japanese prints, Kabuki, Kunichika, Kunisada, kuniyoshi, Nishiki-e, Toshidama Gallery., Ukiyo-e, ukiyo-e art, Yoshitaki, Yoshitoshi
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One Hundred Years of Ukiyo-e at Toshidama Gallery
Kunisada, Iwai Shijaku as an Oiran, 1823 Japanese woodblock prints had been fairly commonplace on the Edo scene by the turn of the nineteenth century. What we now term the ‘classical school’; that is, the artists that were satellites of … Continue reading
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Tagged Kabuki, Kunichika, Kunisada, kuniyoshi, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e art, Yoshitoshi
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The Brilliance of the Osaka School
Kunikazu, Soga Monogatari For many years the brilliance of the Osaka School woodblock artists of Japan has been occluded by their more popular and populous Edo cousins from the Utagawa School in what is present day Tokyo. Happily the situation … Continue reading
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How Come All These Japanese Prints Look The Same?
Kuniyoshi, Hanbei 1840 Kunisada, Hanbei 1840 We’re showing nine prints on this page, all of which seem to share something in common. In some of them the full height, man walking seems to be almost the same; in others a … Continue reading
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Paper Sizes in Japanese Woodblock Prints
It’s very confusing for people visiting Japanese print galleries – especially online – to see prints described as oban or chuban or kakemono-e with no great explanation of what that means. I thought we’d sort out what these sizes are, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hiroshige, Japanese prints, Japanese prints for sale, Kunichika, Kunisada, Toshidama Gallery., ukiyo-e art, Yoshitoshi
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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
Techniques in Japanese Prints IV – Bokashi
Bokashi (shading) Probably the most common advanced technique in woodblock prints is termed bokashi which means shading or transition. It is so universal in some artists’ work that it seems barely noticeable but it nevertheless provides extraordinary variety and depth … Continue reading
Coming up at the Toshidama Gallery
As summer comes to an end and the beginning of the new season approaches, we’ll be continuing our series on techniques in japanese prints with a look at gauffrage (embossing), looking into the relationship between Kuniyoshi and Kunisada’s warrior prints … Continue reading
Tall Tales and Japanese Woodblock Prints
Benkei and Yoshitsune and the Fight at Gojo Bridge Some stories persist; immune to cultural change, embroidered and adapted to different times, rising and falling in popularity and sometimes losing touch completely with their origins and their roots. None of … Continue reading