Plum Estate, Kameido from “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” woodblock prints As if the blooming plum flowers gave out the fragrance for us. It is one of the ukiyo-e series of “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” by Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (1797-1858). The Plum Estate in Kameido was the vacation house of the wealthy […]
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Awa, Naruto Whirlpool from “Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces” The swirling currents beat the angular rocks and splash water about. As if the whirlpool swallows up those who look the print. It is one of the representative works of Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (1797-1858) who was the master‐hand at the landscape paintings in the ukiyo-e world. Hiroshige worked on
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“Landscapes of Autumn and Winter” Sesshu (1420‐1506) was a Zen priest in the late period of the Muromachi Period. And he established Japanese ink paintings (a kind of sumi-e painting, an art expressing only with the light and shade of black ink). The sumi-e painting is one of the “Sabi” world in Japanese
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“The Folding Screen of Fujin and Raijin (God of Wind and Thunder)” <a href=”https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1024px-Fujinraijin-tawaraya.jpg” data-elementor-open-lightbox=”yes” data-elementor-lightbox-title=”1024px-Fujinraijin-tawaraya”> <img width=”1024″ height=”455″ src=”https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1024px-Fujinraijin-tawaraya-1024×455.jpg” alt=”Tawaraya Sotatsu, Fujin and Raijin” loading=”lazy” srcset=”https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1024px-Fujinraijin-tawaraya.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1024px-Fujinraijin-tawaraya.jpg?resize=300%2C133&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1024px-Fujinraijin-tawaraya.jpg?resize=768%2C341&ssl=1 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px” /> </a> <br /><!– Japacul Link Unit –><br /><ins style=”display: block;” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-2105416879233547″ data-ad-slot=”3145397812″ data-ad-format=”link” data-full-width-responsive=”true”></ins><br /> Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570-1643)
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“Irises at Yatsuhashi” (Eight Bridges) by Ogata Kōrin <a href=”https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/as53.7.12.R.jpg” data-elementor-open-lightbox=”yes” data-elementor-lightbox-title=”irises Ogata Korin”> <img width=”1024″ height=”256″ src=”https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/as53.7.12.R-1024×256.jpg” alt=”” loading=”lazy” srcset=”https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/as53.7.12.R-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C256&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/as53.7.12.R-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C38&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/as53.7.12.R-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C75&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/as53.7.12.R-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C192&ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/as53.7.12.R.jpg?w=2000&ssl=1 2000w, https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/as53.7.12.R.jpg?w=3000&ssl=1 3000w” sizes=”(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px” /> </a> <br /><!– Japacul Link Unit –><br /><ins style=”display: block;” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-2105416879233547″ data-ad-slot=”3145397812″ data-ad-format=”link” data-full-width-responsive=”true”></ins><br /> Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716)
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“The folding screen painting of Cypress“ Kano Eitoku (1543-1590) was active painter in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, the end of the Japanese Age of the Civil War. As his artworks, “The folding screen painting of Cypress” is famous as well as “The folding screen painting of Chinese lions “ Related Post “The folding screen painting of
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“The folding screen painting of Chinese lions “（唐獅子図屏風絵） <a href=”https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002.jpg” data-elementor-open-lightbox=”yes” data-elementor-lightbox-title=”Kano_Eitoku_002″> <img width=”640″ height=”322″ src=”https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002-1024×515.jpg” alt=”Famous Japanese art painting, chinese lions by Kano Eitoku” srcset=”https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002.jpg?resize=1024%2C515&ssl=1 1024w, https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002.jpg?resize=300%2C151&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002.jpg?resize=768%2C386&ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002.jpg?resize=400%2C200&ssl=1 400w, https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002.jpg?w=1099&ssl=1 1099w” sizes=”(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px” /> </a> <br /><!– Japacul Link Unit –><br /><ins style=”display: block;” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-2105416879233547″ data-ad-slot=”3145397812″ data-ad-format=”link” data-full-width-responsive=”true”></ins><br />
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46.The back of Fuji from the Minobu The road that the travelers and horses are walking run down to the Kuonji temple, the head temple of Nichiren sect. Some of them are likely to be on their way to the temple. They are surrounded by rugged rocky mountains, and see the overlapping waves of the river on the
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45.Kajikazawa in Kai Province The painting depicts a man standing on the edge of a rocky beach gouged by rough waves, pulling a net, and a boy watching over a basket of fish at his side. At first glance, it seems that the raging waves of the sea are striking on the shore. But
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44.Lake Suwa in Shinano Province In the first edition, it was a woodblock printing of a single indigo color. But every time running into several editions, green and light scarlet was added. Hereby the picture became an emotional landscape of the evening. There is a rocky place where the shrine and two Japanese pine stands in
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