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Saturday, 26 November 2016

39 - Yoshitoshi: Adachigahara hitotsuya no zu - The lonely house on Adachi Moor

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Yoshitoshi: The lonely house on Adachi Moor 1885 This is  Adachigahara hitotsuya no zu -  The lonely house on Adachi Moor, by Tsuki...
Saturday, 19 November 2016

38 - Koryusai: Sagi musume - The Heron Maiden

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Koryusai: Sagi musume - The Heron Maiden Here we have one of my personal bijinga favourites, “The Heron Maiden” [Sagi musume], a wood...
Saturday, 12 November 2016

37 - Kyōsai: Tengu and a Buddhist Monk

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Kyōsai: Tengu and a Buddhist Monk Tengu are folkloristic figures of Japan. A sort of  kami or yōkai. They are something in between hu...
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, 29 October 2016

35 - Kaigetsudō Ando: Bijin and Attendant

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Kaigetsudō Ando: Bijin and Attendant, 1710 Painter Kaigetsudō Ando (1671-1743) founded the Kaigetsudō school, and some of “his” wo...
Saturday, 22 October 2016

34 - Nobukazu: Snow Landscape

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Nobukazu: Snow Landscape, about 1890 Snow Landscape , from the series Snow, Moon and Flower for the Minamoto and Taira by Watanabe N...
Saturday, 15 October 2016

33 - Toyokuni I: Actor Iwai Hanshirō V as Sukeroku

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Toyokuni I: Actor Iwai Hanshirō V as Sukeroku , 1816 Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825), or Toyokuni I, was a very influential ukiyo-e...