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UKIYO E

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 10, 2014
'Hokusai and Riviere: Thirty-six Views Compared and the Hokusai Manga'
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of French ukiyo-e artist Henri Riviere (1888-1902), the Sagawa Art Museum is showcasing the printmaker's famous "Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower" alongside its inspiration, Katsushika Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 3, 2014
'Welcome to Edo! Children Depicted in Ukiyo-e Prints'
Though the most famous of ukiyo-e prints and paintings often feature women, actors and scenery, children were also a common subject. In fact, in Japan, images of children, usually depicted in everyday activities, were some of the top-sellers of the 17th to 19th centuries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 25, 2014
'Specters, Ghosts and Sorcerers in Ukiyo-e'
Ghouls, monsters, specters, ghosts — all manner of the supernatural have long fascinated and frightened in all cultures, but the Japanese have historically enjoyed a particularly entertaining, and pictorial, relationship with the eerie and uncanny.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 25, 2014
'Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston'
After Japan finally opened up to foreign trade during the mid- to late 1800s, many of the West's well-known 20th-century art movements were, perhaps surprisingly, strongly influenced by Japanese art. Japonism became a part of Impressionism, Aestheticism and Art Nouveau, with Japanese aesthetics, themes and motifs appearing in paintings, drawings, objets d'art and the decorative arts.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 21, 2014
The Case of the Sharaku Murders
Before winning the Edogawa Rampo Prize for "The Case of the Sharaku Murders" in 1983, Katsuhiko Takahashi was an ukiyo-e researcher and university lecturer, which perhaps explains why he chose to set his debut novel in the bitchy academic world of ukiyo-e scholarship — where art professors attain shogunlike status among students who treat their mentor's theories as law. When the body of one such scholar, Saga Atsushi, is found floating off the coast of Tohoku a mystery within a mystery soon begins to unravel.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2014
Artist strives to revive ukiyo-e glory
Inuki Tachihara, a 62-year-old self-taught woodblock artist, has devoted half his life to reviving the lost beauty of ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Edo Period (1603-1867) by printing them exactly as they would have been made then, with their original colors. Surviving prints have mostly faded over the years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
The 'Great Wave' that reached the West
Ukiyo-e prints could be found in Europe from at least 1795 at the Cabinet des Estampes at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It was not until the 1850s, however, when trade between Japan and Europe began to flourish, that the craze for things Japanese began to crescendo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
'Sumo Wrestlers in Ukiyo-e: Ishiguro Kazuyoshi Collection'
Sumo is not simply a sport: Like kabuki theater, it's a tradition and an important cultural heritage with a long history. This exhibition showcases nearly 100 sumo-e, ukiyo-e prints of sumo wrestlers, which date back to the early 19th century and are selected from the Kazuyoshi Ishiguro collection.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 3, 2014
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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2014
'Mt. Fuji, Cherry Blossoms, and Flowers in Spring'
Yamatane Museum of Art is saluting last year's inclusion of Mount Fuji as a World Cultural Heritage Site with this special and classic exhibition of Mount Fuji works.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2014
Long-lost painting by ukiyo-e artist Utamaro found
A long-lost painting by ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro completed in the early 19th century has been discovered in Japan and will be put on public display for the first time in 66 years, a museum said Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 18, 2013
'Hokusai from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston'
Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849), one of Japan's best-known Edo Period ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artists, has garnered admiration from across the world for more than a century. His prints are still sought after by collectors and he was the only Japanese to be selected by Life Magazine to be included in its publication "Life millennium: the 100 most important events and people of the past 1,000 years."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 20, 2013
'Kawase Hasui'
Japanese painter Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) was a prominent artist of the shin-hanga (new prints) style. After studying ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) and nihonga (Japanese-style painting) under Kiyokata Kaburagi, he quickly became particularly well known for his skill at landscapes and scenic settings. This exhibition is a celebration of 130 years since Kawase's birth, and features more than 300 of Kawase's works, making it a comprehensive overview of one of the most prolific Japanese artists of the early 20th century.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 6, 2013
'Utagawa Hiroshige's Ukiyo-e of Flowers and Birds'
Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the most prominent figures of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock printing), is particularly well known for his skillful color composition and artistic presentation of landscapes. His iconic imagery has spread to many nations, directly influencing famous artists such as the Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh — and it is still being used in popular culture today.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 7, 2013
Celebrating Japan's artists who loved love
The British Museum's press officer, Claire Coveney, comes hurrying up to take me to the galleries of the museum's latest hot-ticket show, "Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese Art," and I'm not surprised she looks run off her feet. Pre-opening interest in this new exhibition — the most comprehensive ever assembled of Japan's explicit and enchanting "Spring pictures" (shunga) — has reached fever-pitch in the press. Britain's usually well-behaved gallery-goers are, quite frankly, gagging for it.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 25, 2013
'Comical Ukiyo-e: Humorous Pictures and the School of Kuniyoshi'
The Edo Period (1603-1867) of Japan is well known for its economic growth and strong social order, but a lesser known fact is that people of this era also enjoyed comedy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 2013
The beauty of 'man'-kind
While the ukiyo-e woodblock prints depicting beautiful young Japanese women of the Edo Period (1603-1867) are world-renowned, an equally worthy genre and common theme tends to get overlooked: that of handsome men. The imaginative exhibition "Handsome Boys and Good-looking Men of Edo," currently on show at the Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art, brings to light the celebration of the male figure by great Edo Period woodblock print artists.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 17, 2013
Japan's population of ghouls keeps coming back to haunt us
Caught up in the rush of modernity, it is sometimes easy to forget just what a unique and unusual country Japan is. An exhibition such as "Yokai: Demons, Folklore Creatures and GeGeGe no Kitaro" serves to remind us, by peeling back the surface of everyday life and showing us the "collective subconsciousness" represented by the country's longstanding supernatural beliefs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 13, 2013
The collector who saw the fine print
The Nezu Museum is currently showing "Ceramics and Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Hagi Uragami Museum," an exhibition of outstanding artworks collected over the years by the entrepreneur Toshiro Uragami, who donated them to the Hagi Uragami Museum in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1996.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 13, 2013
'Edo's Four Seasons: Seasonal Events and Scenes of Daily Life in Ukiyo-e'
During the Edo Period (1603-1867), celebrating the characteristics of the four seasons was a popular past time, and it involved hosting traditional events that people still enjoy today. These include hanami (cherry-blossom viewing) in the spring, the Tanabata star festival in summer, tsukimi (moon viewing) in autumn, and yukimi (snow-viewing) in winter.
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Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
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