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Showing posts with label Kuniyoshi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kuniyoshi. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 June 2020

121 - Kuniyoshi: Minamato no Tametomo

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Kuniyoshi: Minamato no Tametomo This print is an aka-e, a red print intended to protect against smallpox. It depicts Minamato no Tamet...
Saturday, 16 May 2020

118 - Kuniyoshi: Fûten, the wind god.

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Kuniyoshi: Fûten, the wind god. This is Fûten (巽風), the wind god, manipulating his swirling bag accompanied by a storm-bird; a prin...
Saturday, 9 September 2017

80 - Kuniyoshi: Mongaku Shônin

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Kuniyoshi: Mongaku Shônin The title of this print by Kuniyoshi is not entirely right. Strictly, it should be: Not a very lucky day ...
Saturday, 5 November 2016

36 - Kuniyoshi: The Okazaki Cat Demon

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Kuniyoshi: The Okazaki Cat Demon , about 1850 Utagawa Kuniyoshi loved cats and made innumerable prints with various cat motives. He...
Saturday, 17 September 2016

29 - Kuniyoshi: Yôkyô (Yang Xiang)

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  Kuniyoshi: Yôkyô (Yang Xiang) , 1848 The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety is a book by Chinese scholar Guo Jujing , who w...
Saturday, 6 August 2016

23 - Kuniyoshi: Doll Parodies

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Kuniyoshi: Doll Parodies (Ningyô mitate), 1856 This is a mitate-e from 1856 by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). It is named Doll Par...
Saturday, 19 March 2016

03 - Kuniyoshi: Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the Ghost of Asakura Tôgo

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Kuniyoshi: Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the Ghost of Asakura Tôgo -  1851 This picture is from a Kabuki play by Segawa Jokô...