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• Myths of the Stage… The Fantasy of Kabuki Woodblock Prints and Ziggy Stardust
  on Jun 30, 2016 in Baiko David Bowie Hirosada Japanese prints japanese woodblock prints kabuki Kunichika Kunisada Ukiyo-e ukiyo-e art Ziggy Stardust
  Hirosada. Arashi Rikaku II as Nippon Daemon, 1852Having just acquired some lithographic printed photographs of the actor, Onoe Kikugoro V, (Baiko), I was struck by how different the reality of the stage is when compared to the mystical… the complet...
• Kunichika and Baiko
  on May 19, 2016 in Baiko Japanese Art Japanese Art Gallery Japanese prints kabuki Kunichika Kunisada okubi-e Onoe Kikugoro V Sharaku Toshidama Gallery Toyokuni I
  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...
• The Warrior Sensibility in Japanese Prints
  on Jan 22, 2016 in 108 Suikoden Chushingura Japanese prints japanese woodblock prints Kintaro Kunichika Kunisada Kuniyoshi Musha-e Samurai Toyokuni I Ukiyo-e Ushwaka maru yoshitoshi Yoshitsune
  Kunichika, Minamoto no Yoshiie and Ino Hayata Hunting the Nue Kunisada, Narita no ShinzoThe current exhibition at Toshidama Gallery is called The Warrior Sensibility in Japanese Prints. The twenty-four prints by seven artists cover the bulk of t...
• One Hundred Years of Ukiyo-e 1795 - 1895
  on Dec 4, 2015 in A Comparison of the Ogura One Hundred Poets Hiroshige Japanese prints Japanese prints for sale japanese woodblock prints kabuki Kunichika Kunisada Kuniyoshi Toyokuni I Ukiyo-e yoshitoshi
  100 Years of Ukiyo-e at Toshidama GalleryIt has become habitual over the last five years, for the Toshidama Gallery to publish an essay of a couple of thousand words, expanding on the theme of the current exhibition, adding detail and background to t...
• Nishiki-e in Osaka and Edo
  on Aug 21, 2015 in 108 Suikoden Harunobu Hirosada iki Japanese prints japanese woodblock prints Japonisme Kuniyoshi Moronobu Nishiki-e Shunga Toyokuni I Ukiyo-e wabi-sabi yoshitoshi
  Yoshitoshi, Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata, 1881Aha! 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,...
• Dekiyo-e: Pictures of the Drowning World
  on Jun 5, 2015 in Harunobu Japanese prints japanese woodblock prints kabuki Kunichika Kunisada Kuniyoshi Masanobu Sharaku Toyokuni I Ukiyo-e
  Japanese ideographs have two or more different ways to read (according to Japanese or Chinese pronunciation). Oboreru can be read as 'deki' so 'drowning world picture' could be 'dekiyoe'. (Trevor Ballance, Professor of Josai International University,...
• Toshidama Gallery Japanese Prints: Conflict in 19th Century Japanese Prints
  on Apr 24, 2015
  Toshidama Gallery Japanese Prints: Conflict in 19th Century Japanese Prints: Kiyochika, The Battle of Kawanakajima, 1890 The current show at the Toshidama Gallery looks at prints which seem to have conflict as th...
• Conflict in 19th Century Japanese Prints
  on Apr 24, 2015 in 108 Suikoden Benkei Chushingura Hiroshige Japanese prints japanese woodblock prints kabuki Kintaro Kunichika Kunisada Kuniyoshi Meiji Art Meiji Restoration Ukiyo-e Ushwaka maru Yoshitsune
  Kiyochika, The Battle of Kawanakajima, 1890The current show at the Toshidama Gallery looks at prints which seem to have conflict as their central concern. It was not a tricky selection to make! Huge numbers of ukiyo-e are concerned with human conflic...
• Ukiyo-e Artists of the Decadence at Toshidama Gallery
  on Mar 13, 2015 in Hirosada Japanese prints japanese woodblock prints kabuki Kunichika Kunisada Paul Gauguin Toyokuni III Ukiyo-e ukiyo-e art Utamaro Van Gogh
  Hirosada, A Mirror of the Osaka Summer Festival, 1850moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury So runs the standard definition of decadence: a moral and cultural decline. It is a word habitually used in...
• Kuniyoshi's Men
  on Jan 30, 2015 in 108 Suikoden Japanese prints japanese woodblock prints Jungian Archetypes Kintaro Kuniyoshi Musha-e Roger Keyes Ukiyo-e Ushwaka maru Yoshitsune
  Kuniyoshi, 108 Suikoden - Saijinki KwakuseiThe current show at the Toshidama Gallery presents twenty-four exceptional prints by Kuniyoshi. All of them have in common the primacy of the male protagonist. The male in Kuniyoshi’s world is by no means...

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