My wife and I visited Japan for the first time, a year ago. We stayed with my brother-in-law David, his wife Mutsuko, and their three boys in Shizuoka, a coastal city 180km west of Tokyo, at the foot of Mount Fuji. While there we visited the ‘Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museme of Art’ which is more…
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Hokusai pt2. : The Prints
In Hokusai pt1. I wrote about his life, paintings, drawings and many other non-print creations. Today’s post is a chronological overview of his prints, with brief write ups on my thoughts about them. Titles and dates are entered as accurately as I could find, though there seem to be more than there should from 1830! Adrian…
Hokusai pt1: Life & Times
Katsushika HOKUSAI: The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei) c. 1830-32 ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ is one of the most famous pieces of art ever made. Even though it was made over 180 years ago, it has an enduring presence in popular…
Questions Answered pt 1.
The next couple of posts are going to be focused on the work of two of the most famous ukiyo-e artists Hokusai & Hiroshige. Before we get started I thought that I should answer some questions that I’ve been asked about woodblock prints. Adrian. 28.Mar.2016 Nansuitei YOSHIYUKI: Dôton-bori Canal and Tazaemon-bashi Bridge in the Rain. From…
Bijin-ga (Prints of Beautiful Women)
Today’s post is about the Beautiful People! I think it shows the vast development of colour and technique from Suzuki Harunobu’s relatively simple 5 colour print from the mid- 18th Century, to Asai Kiuoshi’s textured, complex print from the early 20th Century. In this vein I have added a page to my blog called Time Line of…
Yokai
I’ve not been posting as often as I’d hoped (largely due to illness), but I’m back to full strength, and starting this week will be posting regularly on Tuesdays. In addition to my main posts, I also have plans for some books reviews, and exhibition reviews that I’ll be adding over the next couple of weeks….
Theatre Prints
Last week I decided that for the next couple of posts I will look at some of the main subjects for prints from the Ukiyo ‘Golden Age’ of Japanese Prints (18th & 19th Centuries). I have chosen to start with prints that depict Kabuki, a style of theatre which was very popular at that time. Adrian, Feb 29th…
Introduction
2 years ago we went on holiday to Boston, while getting lost in the labirynth of the Museum of Fine Arts, I stumbled across these 4 prints. They were like no prints I had ever seen. I had seen lots of prints in galleries and books before, and the ones from Japan would be like this…
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