The blog site for our gallery of Japanese woodblock prints. Contains articles, videos and information on every aspect of Ukiyo art and design, history and culture.
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Latest Blog Posts for Toshidama Gallery Blog
- Myths of the Stage… The Fantasy of Kabuki Woodblock Prints and Ziggy StardustHirosada. 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 BaikoToyohara 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 PrintsKunichika, 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 - 1895100 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 EdoYoshitoshi, 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 Worldon Jun 5, 2015 in Harunobu Japanese prints japanese woodblock prints kabuki Kunichika Kunisada Kuniyoshi Masanobu Sharaku Toyokuni I Ukiyo-eJapanese 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 Printson Apr 24, 2015Toshidama 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 PrintsKiyochika, 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 GalleryHirosada, 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 MenKuniyoshi, 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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