Author: Timothy Clark Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 200
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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889), described as The Intoxicated Demon of Painting - who could paint a 50-foot theatre curtain in four hours - was a serious student of earlier styles, producing meticulous scrolls of beauties and Buddhist deities. He was also a comic artist of crazy pictures and political satires.
Author: Gyosai Kawanabe Publisher: Creation Books ISBN: 9781840683097 Category : Art, Japanese Languages : en Pages : 0
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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-89) was only 6 years old when he joined the school of the great ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi, along with such fellow pupils as Yoshitoshi, who followed him in 1850. Later Kyosai studied traditional Japanese painting at the Kano school. As befits this varied apprenticeship, Kyosai would embrace many styles and methods during his artistic career. His eclectic approach may also be partly attributable to a legendary sake-drinking habit, which could account for the more bizarre extremes of his chosen subject matter -- in particular, weird demons and the bloody tortures of Hell. Kyosai can now be regarded as not only one of the last true ukiyo-e masters, but also as one of the first truly modernist painters of Japan. "Night Parade Of Hell Creatures", edited by Jack Hunter (who also edited the ground-breaking extreme ukiyo-e anthology "Dream Spectres"), collects and considers over 100 of Kyosai's most innovative, demented and bizarre images -- including multiple yokai, ghosts and demons -- presented in large-format and full-colour throughout. The Ukiyo-e Master Series: presenting seminal collections of art by the greatest print-designers and painters of Edo-period and Meiji-period Japan.
Author: 梶谷亮治 Publisher: Pie Books ISBN: 9784756249234 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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A collection of imaginative (and even humorous) illustrations of hell and other underworld realms in Japanese art works. A great reference for artists and illustrators.
Author: Zília Papp Publisher: Global Oriental ISBN: 9004202870 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 194
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Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today’s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji-period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series ‘Gegegeno Kitaro’ by Mizuki Shigeru. Through an investigation of the very popular Gegegeno Kitaro series, broadcast from the 1960s to the present time, the author is able to pinpoint the visual roots of the animation characters in the context of yôkai folklore and Edo- and Meiji- period monster painting traditions. Through analysing the changing images related to the representation of monsters in the series, the book documents the changes in the perception of monsters over the last half-century, while at the same time reflecting on the importance of Mizuki’s work in keeping Japan’s visual traditions alive and educating new audiences about folklore by recasting yôkai imagery in modern-day settings in an innovative way. In addition, by analysing and comparing character, set, costume and mask design, plot and storyline of yôkai-themed films, the book is also the first study to shed light on the roles the representations of yôkai have been assigned in post-war Japanese cinema. This book will be of particular interest to those studying Japanese visual media, including manga and animation, as well as students and academics in the fields of Japanese Studies, Animation Studies, Art History and Graphic Design.
Author: Michael Dylan Foster Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520253620 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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Monsters known as yōkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese imagination over three centuries.
Author: Kyosai Kawanabe Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 60
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An incredible and unusual hit from 1890, 100 Demons is a post-humous mind-twister from famous Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyosai. It flew off the shelves when it was released shortly after his death. This volume has the same dimensions and contents as the original along with a forward from Japanese art historian Andrew Livingston. Japanese folklore is rife with zany and weird creatures that have captured the imaginations of artists and authors in Japan and around the world for centuries. Kawanabe Kyosai lived through the transformation of Japan from a feudal society to a modern state. Born in 1831 in Koga in modern Ibaraki Prefecture, he was trained in the Kano school of Japanese art. As a boy he worked for a short time with famed woodblock artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi. The Kano School, famed for its focus on painting castles and on panels, was a heralded school in Japanese aesthetic design for centuries. During the 1867 revolution, Kyosai was known more as a caricaturist. He was arrested three times by the shogunate, the feudal government he lived to see overthrown. He then went on to lambast the new government headed by Emperor Meiji. Kyosai succeeded Hokusai as one of the great artists of Japanese history. His art evokes the traditional aesthetic, but betrays his unease with the world. His subjects are often the changes in modern life, wildlife and nature.
Author: Naoko Abe Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525519904 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 341
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Each year, the flowering of cherry blossoms marks the beginning of spring. But if it weren’t for the pioneering work of an English eccentric, Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram, Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms could have gone extinct. Ingram first fell in love with the sakura, or cherry tree, when he visited Japan on his honeymoon in 1907 and was so taken with the plant that he brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England. Years later, upon learning that the Great White Cherry had virtually disappeared from Japan, he buried a living cutting from his own collection in a potato and repatriated it via the Trans-Siberian Express. In the years that followed, Ingram sent more than 100 varieties of cherry tree to new homes around the globe. As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom.
Author: Lesley Downer Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9781592400508 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 356
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The author of Women of the Pleasure Quarters shares the story of the famous geisha whose life inspired Puccini's Madame Butterfly, from her training and participation in secret geisha traditions to her defection from her lucrative career to marry the penniless actor and political maverick Otojiro Kawakami and her rise to international celebrity. Reprint.
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