
It’s Like Deja-vu All Over Again
By Michael O’Clair: A comparison of same subject prints published by two different artists. If you are interested in Japanese prints, you should look at as many of them as you …
By Michael O’Clair: A comparison of same subject prints published by two different artists. If you are interested in Japanese prints, you should look at as many of them as you …
By Darrel C. Karl It’s difficult enough for Japanese print collectors to keep track of how different publishers differentiate (if at all) between multiple editions of their own prints. However, …
By Paul Griffith In the 4th month of 1795, two of the three major Kabuki theatres staged separate productions of the same play. The theatres were the Miyako-za and the …
By Doug Frazer: Fool on a Roof, 1921 is Shinsui’s 25th print for his publisher, Watanabe. This extremely rare pre-earthquake design to our knowledge, exists only in trial states, and …
By Paul Griffith Yakusha-e Kabuki actor portraits are called yakusha-e, literally ‘actor pictures,’ and they are one of the major subjects depicted in ukiyo-e. Yakusha-e artists were an integral part …
By Michael O’Clair I first became interested in Japanese prints while I was in law school in New York City. There was a small gallery near my apartment on the …
by Darrel C. Karl I’ve always been fascinated by the manner in which artists conceive and realize their vision in the woodblock print medium. Some, like Kawase Hasui, would produce …
It’s easy to find definitions for the term ukiyo-e, they exist throughout the internet and appear in nearly every treatise on the genre. The translation of ukiyo-e boils down to …
The term shin-hanga will always be associated with Shozaburo Watanabe, whose publishing enterprise is still producing as it enters its second century of business. Watanabe coined the term shin-hanga around …