Japanese Woodblock Prints and Posters

Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, 1900-1975 by Helen Merritt, Nanako Yamada

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Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Floating World (Prestige Collection)( 03 books in slip case) by Edmond De Goncourt, Mikhail Uspensky

The art of the Ukiyo-e reflected the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation which, when it became accessible to the West, significantly influenced a number of European artists. The three masters of Ukiyo-e, Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige, are united here for the first time to create a true reference on Japanese art. The three masters rank highly among the most famous Japanese artistic productions of all time. This new title of the Prestige of Art collection will be a reference for art s...0 points

Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium by Andreas Marks

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Ukiyo-e: An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints by Tadashi Kobayashi

Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, occupy a singular position in the lexicon of world art. They enthralled such Western artists as Whistler, Manet, Degas, and van Gogh, and gave rise to a wave of "japonisme" in the salons of Paris, London, and New York that left a lasting impression.

As the successor to previous aristocratic traditions, the ukiyo-e print represents the last flowering of traditional pictorial art before Japan entered the modern era. These "pictures of the floating world" refl...0 points

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Japanese Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi by Tamara Tjardes, Yoshitoshi Taiso

Yoshitoshi (1839-92) was the last great woodblock print master of the Ukiyo-e tradition, and 'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon' is regarded as his greatest achievement. The only complete set of the series, in the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, provides for the exquisite reproductions in this popular book on 19th century Japan's most mainstream art amusement. Yoshitoshi was born in the city of Edo (Tokyo) shortly before Japan's violent transformations from a mediev...0 points

Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680 - 1900 by Andreas Marks

Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s until the year 1900, Japanese Woodblock Prints provides a detailed survey of all the major artists, along with the images on which their fame rests.

Unlike previous examinations of this art form, Japanese Woodblock Prints includes detailed histor...0 points

Japanese woodblock prints: their techniques and appreciation by UmetaroÌ%u201E Azechi

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The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints

"The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints" will serve as a source of quick reference as well as an in-depth study of all aspects of Japanese prints from the Edo (1600-1868) to Taisho (1912-26) periods. The first volume of the encyclopedia is divided into four main subject areas: historical background, the art history of Ukiyo-e prints, print production (materials and techniques, the publishing trade) and the history of collecting Japanese prints, with a shorter fifth section on conser...0 points

Japanese Woodblock Bird Prints (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Numata Kashu

Numata Kashû's wonderfully lifelike images of birds and flowers first appeared in a three-volume, 1883 portfolio. His woodblock prints were so popular that dealers sold them individually, destroying most complete sets. A collector's delight, this exquisite edition reprints a 1930s facsimile, alive with 150 color illustrations of the highest quality.0 points

Collector's Value Guide to Japanese Woodblock Prints by Sandra Andacht

This guide helps collectors determine a print's date marks, artist seals, period placement, authenticity, condition, and value. A chapter on the techniques used to create woodblock prints - including intaglio, mezzotint, etching, engraving, lithograph, serigraph, aquatint, and offset - provides valuable, in-depth information for the art connoisseur.0 points

Shin Hanga: The New Print Movement in Japan by Barry Till

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Ukiyo-E to Shin Hanga: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints by Chris Uhlenbeck, Amy Newland

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Ukiyo Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints (Paperback Art Series) by Amy Newland

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Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Bibliography of Writings from 1822-1993 Entirely or Partly in English Text by William Green

The ultimate research tool for the study of Japanese prints, this publication represents eight years of research by the author William Green. It lists over 6000 publications dating from 1822 to 1993, concentrating on those in English. In addition, the inclusion of newspaper and periodical reviews of the most important books and catalogs enables the academic debate concerning Japanese prints to be followed. This book is divided along thematic lines into 15 chapters and also contains three indexes...0 points

Japanese Woodblock Prints by Umetaro Azechi

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Beauty & Bravado in Japanese Woodblock Prints - Highlights From the Gillett G. Griffin Collection by Laura J. Mueller

An exhibition in the Leonard L. Milberg Gallery for Graphic Arts, Firestone Library, Princeton University. From January 18 to June 7, 2009. 47 pages with 17 color photos.0 points

120 Japanese Prints CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art) by Hiroshige Hokusai

Much admired and highly prized worldwide, the romantically idealized figures and objects in this superb collection of Japanese prints depict a wide range of subjects - from courtesans, geishas, and samurai to flora and fauna, seascapes, and views of Mt. Fuji. 120 full-color images.
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Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert Museum by Rupert Faulkner

Ever since Japan opened its doors to the West in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Westerners have been fascinated by the exquisite art forms that flourished during the previous two hundred years of self-imposed isolation. Among the most intriguing were the bold yet refined paintings and prints known as ukiyo-e, which portrayed the popular pursuits of the time with extraordinary power. Such was the appeal of this unique art in the West that tens of thousands of superb prints eventually...0 points

Japanese Ukiyo-e Floral Prints by Daniel Ankele

An amazing collection of over 75 Japanese floral prints painted during the Meiji period of art in Japan. Ukiyo-e 'pictures of the floating world' is a genre of woodblock paintings. Flower species include; azalea, camellia, cape jasmine, chrysanthemum, crape myrtle, plum, primrose and many more. Print titles have been faithfully translated from Japanese to English.0 points

Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) by Barry Till

The Meiji period's short span of forty-five years marked an astonishing metamorphosis from primitive feudal state to modern industrial and military power in Japan. The nation's policy of isolationism, sakoku (closed country), initiated in 1639, was abruptly challenged in 1853 when Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay with four awe-inspiring iron vessels known as "black ships." Faced with superior military technology, the Japanese were compelled to sign trade treaties with the United...0 points

Japanese Wood-Block Prints by Shizuya Fujikake

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Japanese Woodblock Prints 2013 Calendar

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Japanese Prints: The Art Institute of Chicago (Tiny Folio) by James T. Ulak

Another in the Abbeville's Tiny Folios series, this little book is a real gem. The Art Institute of Chicago houses one of the world's most beautiful and comprehensive collections of Japanese woodblock prints in the world. Clarence Buckingham, of the famed Chicago family, donated 12,000 prints alone. The book covers this exquisite collection of work from the 17th to 19th centuries in four sections: Primitives, Courtesans, Actors, and Landscapes. It includes work by well-known masters such as Hiro...0 points

Ukiyo-E: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints by Amy Newland

80 color, 35 b&w photos. 10 1/4 x 14 1/4.0 points

The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: A Descriptive Catalogue by Gina Collia-Suzuki

Kitagawa Utamaro was the leading light of the popular Ukiyo-e school of woodblock print designers during its golden age, famous throughout Japan within his own lifetime, an immeasurable influence upon nineteenth century French artists, such as Vincent Van Gogh, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet, and is a continuing source of inspiration and admiration throughout the world today for his portraits of sumptuously garbed courtesans and sensitively drawn depictions of everyday life in eighteenth century...0 points

Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties: Woodblocks from Adventure Stories (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Samurai, strongmen, demons, and detectives abound in this original selection of 64 woodblock-printed book covers and frontispiece illustrations from 1898 to 1903. Assembled by an expert in Asian art, who contributes captions and a substantial introduction, they offer rare glimpses of a newly rediscovered art form: the Japanese equivalent of dime-store novels.0 points

The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi by Tadao Ogura

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Japanese Woodblock Prints 2012 Engagement Calendar by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

During Japan's Edo period (1615-1868), art schools flourished, producing richly colored woodblock prints for a newly prosperous middle class. The 32 woodcuts in this calendar are selections from 12 artists, including Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), who either founded or were affiliated with the Utagawa, Hokusai, Harunobu, or Eisen schools. The calendar also includes a brief introduction; 57 weekly grids and 13 full-page monthly grids; double-page spreads of...0 points

Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820 - Second Edition by Timon Screech

During the Edo period in eighteenth-century Japan, erotic paintings and prints known today as shunga were popular among both men and women. Yet,  prior to Tim Screech's definitive study, Sex and the Floating World, no one had attempted to situate these overtly sexual images within the contexts of the sexual, gender, or class tensions of the time.

 Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Sex and the Floating World examines how and why these images were made and used. Along the way,...

Hiroshige & Hokusui Japanese Woodblock Prints 2010 Calendar

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Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints by Kendall H. Brown

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) was the foremost Japanese landscape print artist of the 20th century. His work is characterised by a fascination with light, climatic conditions and tranquillity. His oeuvre consists of over 700 designs of which the largest part was produced for Watanabe Shozaburo, the initiator of the Shin hanga movement. This volume, the first comprehensive study of Hasui's life and work in English, presents his entire oeuvre in colour. Also included are the prints Hasui produced for o...0 points

Hiroshige & Hokusai Japanese Woodblock Prints 2008 Calendar by Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print (No) by Frederick Harris

Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") is an art form that originated in the metropolitan culture of Edo (Tokyo) in the early seventeenth century and involved collaboration between artist, carver, printer and publisher. Printed on fragile paper using a technique of woodcut or woodblock printing, the early black and white designs soon gave way to delicate two-color prints and then to multicolored prints. Favorite subjects were portraits of beautiful geisha and courtesans, popular kabuki actor...0 points

Hiroshige, 100 Views of Edo: Woodblock Prints by Ando Hiroshige (Temporis) by Mikhail Uspensky

The hundred views of Edo is one of the most famous artistic productions of all times. The arts of Ukiyo-e were the expression of a singular and isolated civilisation. It had considerable influence on European art, and both Monet and Van Gogh drew much inspiration from it.

The sets of prints emanating from Edo, many of them take as subjects views on the Tokaido road, rendered him famous and early European visitors began buying and bringing them back to Europe, setting off a trend for Japanese art....

Aanraku Ukiyoe: Japanese Woodblock Print Stained Glass Pattern Book by Jeffrey Castaline

A unique collection of stained glass patterns based on traditional Japanese woodblock prints.0 points

Japanese Woodblock Prints 2009 Calendar by GRAPHIQUE DE FRANCE (CAL)

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PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD (19TH CENTURY JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS) by Japanese Artists

PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD earlier 19th-century Japanese woodblock album. 8 color woodblocks of warriors & prisoners mounted back to back on thick rice card- trimmed, All text in Japanese.0 points

2012 Japanese Woodblock Prints Wall Calendar by Graphique de France

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Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture by Helen Merritt, Nanako Yamada

Here is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late-Meiji art: the type of handmade multicolor book frontispieces known as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints. Although many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced in this readable volume make clear that there was another class of popular woodblock traditi...0 points

The Printmaking Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques by Ann d'Arcy Hughes, Hebe Vernon-Morris

Perennially popular, printmaking is enjoying a contemporary resurgencebut no comprehensive up-to-date manual on the subject exists. At over 400 pages and packed with 1,000 full-color photos and illustrations, The Printmaking Bible is the definitive resource to the ins-and-outs of every variety of serious printmaking technique practiced today.In-depth instructions are accompanied by profiles that show how working artists create their prints. Historical information, troubleshooting tips, and an ex...0 points

Hiroshige and Hokusai: Japanese Woodblock Prints 2009 Engagement Calendar by Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Pomegranate

Katsushika Hokusai (1760 1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 1858) were the greatest makers of ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world. Among the thirty-two woodcuts in this calendar are selections from these artists most prized series, such as Hiroshige s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo and Hokusai s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Also included: 54 weekly grids, 12 full-page monthly grids, a brief essay about the artists, lists of international holidays and international calling codes/time di...0 points

Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary by Seigo Nakao

This dictionary is designed for non-native speakers of Japanese, perfect for business people and students. There are over 50,000 entries, including the most common meanings. Japanese terms are shown in romanized Japanese and standard Japanese characters. The romanized entries are listed in alphabetical order, so no knowledge of Japanese is required.0 points

2011 Japanese Woodblock Prints by Graphique de France

Katsushika Hokusai & Utagawa Hiroshige,great masters of the woodblock style ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world". Whether depicting the fury of the sea or the tranquility of an autumn field, these works evoke the mystical beauty that is Japan.0 points

Japanese Woodblock Prints 2009 Wall Calendar

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