Author: Tamara Tjardes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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A wealth of information about herbal remedies native to the Southwest, infused with wisdom, wit, and personal reminiscences.

Author: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486498539
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This marvelous evocation of traditional Japanese culture is the vision of the most prolific and influential woodblock artist of the Meiji period. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi began his masterpiece in 1885 and finished it shortly before his death, seven years later. His images depict characters from history and legend — courtesans, warriors, musicians, poets, and ordinary folk — in striking vignettes that unfold by the light of the moon. An eager public of Yoshitoshi's contemporaries snapped up new designs from the "moon series" as quickly as they appeared. The artist incorporated Western techniques into a traditional medium that was already losing ground to photography and lithography. Inspired by history and myth, his portraits of a vanishing world elevated woodblock art to its highest level before the genre's decline. Now, after a century of obscurity, Yoshitoshi's glorious illustrations are being rediscovered. This edition of his greatest work features reproductions of each image in full color and at nearly actual size, accompanied by insightful commentaries.

Author: De Anima Books
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532914287
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Tsuki Hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon) is a collection of large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The 100 prints were published in batches by Akiyama Buemon between 1885 and 1892. They depict various aspects of the moon, drawing upon Japanese and Chinese anecdotes, historical events, and mythology, and relate to a wide range of subjects, including famous warriors, notable women, birds and animals, and goblins and ghosts.

Author: John Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: John Stevenson
Publisher: Brill Hotei
ISBN: 9789004337374
Category : Ghosts in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Taisō Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was fascinated by the supernatural, and some of his best work concerns ghosts, monsters, and charming animal transmutations. Yoshitoshi's strange tales presents two series (with full page illustrations) that focus on his depictions of the weird and magical world of the transformed. The first series is One Hundred Tales of Japan and China (Wakan hyaku monogatari, 1865) and it is based on a game in which people told short scary ghost tales in a darkened room, extinguishing a candle as each tale ended. New Forms of Thirty-six Strange Things (Shinken sanjūrokkaisen) of 1889-92 illustrates stories from Japan's rich heritage of legends in more serene and objective ways.

Author: John Stevenson
Publisher: Brill Hotei
ISBN: 9789074822428
Category : Art appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Reproduces the artist's "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" and explains the story behind each design. Includes a biography of Yoshitoshi.

Author: Noriko J. Horiguchi
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452932891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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How women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empire

Author: Gil Asakawa
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1611720222
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share.

Author:
Publisher: Ukiyo-E Master Specials
ISBN: 9781840683165
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This edition of Yoshitoshi's 100 Dogs of War contains not only Yoshitoshi's full set of 65 completed battle prints, reproduced in full-size and full-colour, but also several fascinating preparatory drawings for unfinished designs. -- provided by publisher.

Author: John Stevenson
Publisher: University of Washington Press and Avery Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was the last creative genius of woodblock prints, his career spanning traditional Japan and the modernizing of Meiji. He is best known for designs of Japan's legendary past, for violent and bloody prints, and for prints of women. His finest images of women form a series entitled Fuzoku sanjuniso, "Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life", which was issued in 1888. The series shows women of different social classes from 1789 to Yoshitoshi's present. Sensitively conceived and lavishly produced, the prints are vignettes of women caught in typical moments of their daily lives. The series has become a classic and fetches high prices from collectors. Woodblock prints had always been concerned with what was fashionable and up-to-date - "Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life" was different in trying to capture the flavor of historical periods that had disappeared. It was original, too, in its attempt to individualize women in a genre that was usually highly stylized. This book presents "Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life" in full color, explaining the subtleties of each design in text opposite the print. An illustrated introduction explores Yoshitoshi's often problematic relations with women, the lives of courtesans and geisha, and how the series was produced.