Kunisada 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Kunisada 53 Stations of the Tokaido

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-08-02

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 8411748472

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The 53 Stations of the Tokaido by Utagawa Kunisada (1786 - 12 January 1865) is both a tour through the landscape of Japan and a cultural introduction. But first of all it is a fashion magazine about beautiful, young and stylish Japanese women in 1838. These young beauties were one of the subjects Kunisada excelled in. Kunisada show beautiful girls from all walks of life, explorers and adventurers, musicians, theater stars, imperial concubines, country girls, business women. They all have beauty and great fashion taste as the common denominator. His landscapes were a means of circumventing censorship especially of theater prints and pin-up prints of pretty ladies, bijin-ga. The work is probably one of the most romantic of all the Tokaido series.

Hiroshige - Kunisada Two Brushes Tokaido
Hiroshige - Kunisada Two Brushes Tokaido

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 8411747794

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The cooperative work between Hiroshige and Kunisada (1854 -1855) is probably the most romantic of all the Tokaido editions. Both Hiroshige and Kunisada did their own individual versions with the same type of theme - a combination of landscape and often unrelated portraits based in legend and other motifs. But they did not rise to the level of elegance of the "Two Brush" Tokaido. The figures and the landscape are very well balanced and the colors are fresh and joyful. The "Two Brush" Tokaido is both a tour through the landscape of Japan and a cultural introduction. The reason for the combination of landscape and theater was to circumvent censorship of the popular kabuki theater prints.

The Tōkaidō Road
The Tōkaidō Road

Author: Jilly Traganou

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780415310918

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Offers a comparative study of representations of the Tôkaidô road, the most important route of Japan during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras.

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya
Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-08-18

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 3757808630

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All the way through Hiroshige follows certain design principles of proportion of elements, arranging elements and views by diagonals and parallels and balancing of color elements. Compared to most of his other Tokaido series Hiroshige in Aritaya focus on letting the landscape tell the story instead of letting people or legend do that, although this is not followed through completely.

Kunisada's Tōkaidō
Kunisada's Tōkaidō

Author: Andreas Marks

Publisher: Hotei Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9789004191464

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In "Kunisada's T kaid: Riddles in Japanese Woodblock Prints," Andreas Marks offers an account of serialization in Japanese prints by outlining and analysing the juxtaposition of kabuki actors with post stations of the T kaid road in Utagawa Kunisada's designs of the 19th century."

Hiroshige Kunisada Kuniyoshi 53 Pairings of the Tokaido
Hiroshige Kunisada Kuniyoshi 53 Pairings of the Tokaido

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-01-19

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 841373049X

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This series, Fifty-three Pairings of the Tokaido Road, Tokaido gojusan tsui, popularly called Pairs Tokaido or 53 Parallels for the Tokaido Road, was published in 1845-1846. It is a unique cooperation between three artists: Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi and five publishers: Ibaya Kyubei, (Ibaya Senzaburo (Dansendo)) and Kojimaya Jubei, Enshuya Matabei, Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudo) and Iseya Ichibei. The special feature of this Pairs Tokaido is the pairing of a print for each station with a legend, a wonderful, dramatic, historic or supranatural story. These stories are told partly by the print theme, partly by accompanying text in a cartouche. Sometimes there is a poem. It is a very enjoyable tour!

Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1802
Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1802

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 8411748367

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Hokusai ́s 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1802 is something completely different from his first square series 1801. Hokusai here employs the horizontal "landscape" format and abt the double size of his square 1801 series. In this series Hokusai focus on wonderful folkloric scenes of ordinary people going about their work, in addition to the travel scenes. Hokusai also begins to develop the landscapes that were to become a standard for later generations of Tokaido series. Hokusai develops the concept of the Tokaido print from cartoon to folklore and the beginning of landscape. He builds on a b/w guide, Tokaido meisho zue from 1797, ISBN 9781956773316. It was a great and early contribution to the growing Tokaido literature, which Hokusai dominated for some 30 years.

The Scenic Places of the Tokaido Processional Tokaido
The Scenic Places of the Tokaido Processional Tokaido

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 8411748359

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The Scenic Places of the Tokaido (Tokaido Meisho no Uchi) by 17 artists is based on the list of prints on the Kunisada Project website run by Dr Horst Graebner with a total of 162 ukiyo-e prints. It is a fantastic work, an effort presumably directed by the shogun ́s political office to commemorate his attempt to preserve a joint rulership with the emperor over Japan. It differs from the many other Tokaido series by the large number of prints, at least three times as many in a series. If differs by the number of people in the prints - the procession consisted of 3,000 people. It also marks the end of the ukiyo-e Tokaido, where the forced travel of the daimyo - sankin-kotai - had contributed so much to the economic and cultural development along these roads and indeed to the whole print making industry. The shogun abolished sankin-kotai in 1862.

Architecture/Art/Parallels/Connections
Architecture/Art/Parallels/Connections

Author: Barry A. Berkus

Publisher: Images Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781864700848

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Looks at the parallels between works of art that are often separated by long periods of time or spatial context.

Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese Woodblock Prints

Author: Andreas Marks

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 994

ISBN-13: 1462905994

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Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s until the year 1900, Japanese Woodblock Prints provides a detailed survey of all the famous ukiyo-e artists, along with over 500 full-color prints. Unlike previous examinations of this art form, Japanese Woodblock Prints includes detailed histories of the publishers of woodblock prints--who were often the driving force determining which prints, and therefore which artists, would make it into mass circulation for a chance at critical and popular success. Invaluable as a guide for ukiyo-e enthusiasts looking for detailed information about their favorite Japanese woodblock print artists and prints, it is also an ideal introduction for newcomers to the world of the woodblock print. This lavishly illustrated book will be a valued addition to the libraries of scholars, as well as the general art enthusiast.