Biography of Kitagawa Utamaro(1753?-1806) When talking about portraying beautiful women of ukiyo-e prints, we can’t describe it without touching on Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿). He developed the new ways to draw Edo women and it made him as a maestro of bijinga(printing of beautiful women portrait). It is unclear when and where he was born exactly […]
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“A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces” (諸国瀧廻り) Just after the success of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji”, popular ukiyo-e artist among Edo people, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced the famous waterfalls ukiyo-e series “A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces” from 1833 to 1837. When he drew the pitcures, he used the name of “former Hokusai and
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The series of “A hundred horror stories” prints Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) began to deal with “A hundred horror stories” (Hyaku-monogatari/百物語) in 1831. He used the painting name of “Iitsu” (為一) as the signature. Hyakumonogatari was the traditional way of a gathering to speak and hear ghost stories. As the title represents, he and the publisher
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The Japanese wave arts of “Oceans of Wisdom “(One Thousand Images of the Sea) After the finish of “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (富嶽三十六景）, the star ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai started the new series of the Japanese wave arts “One Thousand Images of the Sea” (Oceans of Wisdom,千絵の海) in 1833. He had mainly depicted the combination of
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Biography of Utagawa(Ando) Hiroshige(1797-1858) The outstanding ukiyo-e artist, Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige<歌川（安藤） 広重> was born in 1797 as the son of the official fire fighter Ando Gen-emon. His landscape woodblock printings took many Edo citizens all over Japan. However, he was not from the class of tradesmen and artisans. Ando family belonged to the class
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Katsushika Hokusai’s most famous prints series, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), who was one of the most active ukiyo-e artists in Edo Period, accomplished the Mt.Fuji arts series of “Fugaku Sanjurokkei”(Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji) in early 18th century. Related Post Katsushika Hokusai’s biography Viewing one by one, you should not get boared with them by his color usage and composition.
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In the history of Japanes painting, it was around the time of the Heian period when its own features came out. Until then, most of the paintings showed the people at the time or the dogma of Buddhism. Asuka and Nara Period The colored wall paintings of Takamatudzuka Kofun tell us the figure of the
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“Rooster and Hen with Hydrangeas” “Rooster and Hen with Hydrangeas” was drawn in 1759. At that time, Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800) left off his businesses and begun to concentrate on painting when he was in the forties. Based on observation in his life, he drew the world of imagination with a delicate brushwork. Using a first-class
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