What about Kunisada?
Author: Jan van Doesburg
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13:
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Kuniyoshi
Author: Timothy Clarke
Publisher: Royal Academy Books
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905711406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handsome volume explores the life and work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), one of Japan's greatest print artists. Alongside such illustrious names as Hokusai and Hiroshige, he dominated the 19th-century production of the popular genre of woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, literally, "pictures of the floating world." The only major book to illustrate the entirety of the artist's work, Kuniyoshi explores his extraordinary imagination across an impressive range of subject matter, from his portraits of Japanese warrior heroes and fashionable beauties to his satirical themes and innovative landscape prints. Published to accompany a spectacular exhibition, Kuniyoshi is an essential reference for Japanese art collectors and enthusiasts.
The 47 Ronin
Author: Kunisada Utagawa
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781840683158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Ukiyo-e Master Special edition of Kunisada's 47 Ronin contains not only Kunisada's complete set of 48 samurai prints, reproduced in full-size and full-colour, but also reference prints from Kuniyoshi's classic series of 1847, complimenting each image. The book also features A.B. Mitford's definitive Legend of the 47 Ronin, the first English-languge version of the story from 1871. This text is illustrated with 47 Ronin prints by varoius other classic ukiyo-e artists, including Yoshitora, Yoshitoshi, and Kunichika, bringing the total number of colour prints in the book to over 100.
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Author: Andreas Marks
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 994
ISBN-13: 1462905994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapanese 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.
A Third Gender
Author: Joshua S. Mostow
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780888545145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu, male youths, were desired by men and women, constituting a "third gender" with their androgynous appearance and variable sexuality. This book examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-period culture. The book reproduces over a hundred works, mostly woodblock prints and illustrated books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book is based on the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, which houses the largest collection of Japanese art in Canada, including more than 2,500 woodblock prints.
Kunisada's Tōkaidō
Author: Andreas Marks
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9789004191464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn "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."
The Hundred Poets Compared
Author: Henk Herwig
Publisher: Brill Hotei
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Hundred Poets Compared discusses a print series by three of the most famous Japanese print artists of the 19th century: Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada. This series of one hundred prints is known as the Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Companions of the Ogura One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) and constitutes a typical example of serial graphics from the world of Ukiyo-e." "Each print compares one of the poems from the most-beloved collection of Japanese poetry, The One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (Hyahunin isshu), with a scene from Japanese history or theatre."--BOOK JACKET.
Color Your Own Japanese Woodblock Prints
Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2011-01-14
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0486476510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColorists of all ages will appreciate these graceful courtesans, mountainous landscapes, and other images from the woodblock tradition. Thirty meticulous renderings include masterly works by Kunisada, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Eisen, and Toyokuni.
Japanese Prints
Author: Ellis Tinios
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
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Tattoos in Japanese Prints
Author: Sarah E. Thompson
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780878468461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduces ukiyo-e prints from the incomparable collection of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Many tattoo connoisseurs consider the Japanese tradition to be the finest in the world for its detail, complexity, and compositional skill. Its style and subject matter are drawn from the visual treasure trove of Japanese popular culture, in particular the colour woodblock prints of the early nineteenth century known as ukiyo-e. This book tells the fascinating story of how ukiyo-e first inspired tattoo artists as the pictorial tradition of tattooing in Japan was just beginning. It explores the Japanese tattoo's evolving meanings, from symbol of devotion to punishment and even to crime, and reveals the tales behind specific motifs. With lush, colourful images of flowers blooming on the arm of a thief, sea monsters coiling across the back of a hero, and legendary warriors battling on the chests of actors, the tattoos in these Japanese prints can offer the same vivid inspiration today as they did two hundred years ago.
