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The Artist in Edo Symposium
This past Friday and Saturday I had the opportunity to attend The Artist in Edo Symposium, organized by the Freer Sackler gallery and National Gallery of Art. This exhibition was…
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Harunobu: Daruma, mitate, and feminine motifs
Posted on September 27, 2011 | 1 CommentI was recently reading the essay “Feminine Motifs in Bodhidharma Symbology in Japan“, it was really interesting to see the different ways in which bits of Buddhist lore were interwoven... -
Bathing Beauties
Posted on September 15, 2011 | No CommentsA very rare edition of Ito Shinsui’s famous “After the bath” print has come up for auction at Floating World Auctions. According to them this print is actually from Shinsui’s... -
Theatre Albums
Posted on September 13, 2011 | No CommentsAn upcoming auction at Leo Spik (in Germany) has a cool lot of 21 theatre albums. They include art from a number of Utagawa artists including Kunisada, Kunimori, and Kuniteru.... -
Fading in Prints
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe site Viewing Japanese Prints has two excellent articles on fading in Japanese prints. The first shows three prints, displayed above, by the same artist and from the same time... -
Torii Kiyomasu II Print
Posted on September 8, 2011 | 2 CommentsI ran across this particular print in a lot of Japanese prints at an auction at I.M. Chait. It was quite different from most of the other prints that one... -
Hokusai: Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsA copy of Hokusai’s Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji has come up for auction at Freeman’s Auction in Philadelphia. This is a Japanese Woodblock print book (which is a sub-category... -
The Japanese Print: An Interpretation
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright was an avid collector of Japanese Woodblock Prints. As it turns out, he also published a book as well (first released in 1912). A...