Hiroshige Famous Places of Naniwa (Osaka)

Hiroshige Famous Places of Naniwa (Osaka)
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BOD GmbH DE
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2024-07-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8411747239

This book shows the 10 Famous Views Of Naniwa (Osaka) by Hiroshige published in 1834. They are unusual in that they show markets with merchants negotiating. The 8 Views is a Chinese artistic and literary theme developed already in the 10th century and then transposed into Japanese culture, where it developed its own independent expression. Print artist Utagawa Hiroshige as many other Japanese artists took up the issue of 8 Views of Omi and again as other Japanese artists he expanded the theme into 8 Views of Kanazawa, 8 Views of Edo Environs and other locations. To give some background there are many other prints included especially about rice but also fishing and transportation, and cultural activities afforded by the wealth accumulated by the merchants. It is possible to travel to see the same sites today.

The Scenic Places of the Tokaido Processional Tokaido

The Scenic Places of the Tokaido Processional Tokaido
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BOD GmbH DE
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8411748359

The Scenic Places of the Tokaido (Tokaido Meisho no Uchi) by 17 artists is based on the list of prints on the Kunisada Project website run by Dr Horst Graebner with a total of 162 ukiyo-e prints. It is a fantastic work, an effort presumably directed by the shogun ́s political office to commemorate his attempt to preserve a joint rulership with the emperor over Japan. It differs from the many other Tokaido series by the large number of prints, at least three times as many in a series. If differs by the number of people in the prints - the procession consisted of 3,000 people. It also marks the end of the ukiyo-e Tokaido, where the forced travel of the daimyo - sankin-kotai - had contributed so much to the economic and cultural development along these roads and indeed to the whole print making industry. The shogun abolished sankin-kotai in 1862.

Hiroshige Famous Places of Naniwa (Osaka)

Hiroshige Famous Places of Naniwa (Osaka)
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781649454997

This book shows the 10 Famous Views Of Naniwa (Osaka) by Hiroshige published in 1834. They are unusual in that they show markets with merchants negotiating. The 8 Views is a Chinese artistic and literary theme developed already in the 10th century and then transposed into Japanese culture, where it developed its own independent expression. Print artist Utagawa Hiroshige as many other Japanese artists took up the issue of 8 Views of Ōmi and again as other Japanese artists he expanded the theme into 8 Views of Kanazawa, 8 Views of Edo Environs and other locations. To give some background there are many other prints especially about rice but also fishing and transportation, and cultural activities afforded by the wealth accumulated by the merchants. It is possible to travel to see the same sites today.

Yoshitaki Kunikazu Nansuitei Yoshiyuki 100 Views of Osaka

Yoshitaki Kunikazu Nansuitei Yoshiyuki 100 Views of Osaka
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2023-08-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3757807723

Viewing Osaka through the series 100 Views of Naniwa (Osaka) is an amazing experience. It is a well executed repetition over a format by Hiroshige. Some add a Famous to the title. All 104 prints in the series are included here. This series is by three artists, Utagawa Yoshitaki, Utagawa Kunikazu and Nansuitei Yoshiyuki. Hiroshige I created his revolutionary series 100 Famous Views of Edo over three years, 1856-1859. This led to the publishing of copy series 100 Views of Naniwa (Osaka) by other artists. The book here is based mainly on prints in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Osaka Municipal Museum collections.

Keisai Eisen A Tokaido Board Game of Courtesans Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara

Keisai Eisen A Tokaido Board Game of Courtesans Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BOD GmbH DE
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2024-08-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8411749886

Keisai Eisen (1790 -1848) is especially known for his bijin-ga, pretty women, and landscapes. He is well known for his participation in the series 69 stations of the Nakasendo together with Hiroshige. The series A Tokaido Board Game of Courtesans, Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara use the Tokaido with landscape inserts as an excuse for showing courtesans and geisha, bijin-ga, to skirt the censorship. It was published 1821-1823. His bijin-ga are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818-1830). Most of them have impressive hairdo with many ornamental hairpins and combs. Their dress is extravagant with beautiful patterns and sublime embroideries. Their faces are elongated squares with long noses and small pouted painted mouths. Courtesans were desirable for their rich and splendid attire, not so much for their beauty and their names were actually like trademarks for a series of girls performing the same name role with the brothel in question.

Hiroshige 69 Stations of the Nakasendo

Hiroshige 69 Stations of the Nakasendo
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BOD GmbH DE
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2024-01-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 841373066X

Come on the journey from Edo, modern day Tokyo, to Kyoto, as experienced by Utagawa Hiroshige in, when he travelled the Tokaido road to participate in 1832 an important procession in Kyoto. There were 69 post stations along this other, parallel road over the mountains, apart from the start and terminus, in all 70 prints, which are all here in the order from Edo to Kyoto, but one station has two prints, so in total 71 prints in the Nakasendo. These were the most popular print series ever made in Japan. They were even more popular than Hokusais series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, which had been recently published and which had influenced Hiroshige tremendously. It is possible to travel the same road today and some villages are still looking quite like they did back then. The postal stations were constructed between 1601 and 1624.

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Vertical

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Vertical
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BOD GmbH DE
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2024-08-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8411749746

The official title for this work is "Pictures from the Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations". Hiroshige produced these prints in 1855 more than 20 years after his first horizontal Hoeido series published 1833-34, which is included as thumbnails for comparison. It is instructive to see Hiroshiges use of his now mature experience as he develops the vertical format for the narrative. He does designs as he would do a photograph. He set the standard for landscape photography, without a camera. The Tokaido series was the most popular print series ever made in Japan. Hiroshige returned to this theme again and again, with delightful results. It is possible to travel the same road today and some villages are still looking quite like they did back then. The postal stations were constructed between 1601 and 1624.

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2023-08-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3757808630

All the way through Hiroshige follows certain design principles of proportion of elements, arranging elements and views by diagonals and parallels and balancing of color elements. Compared to most of his other Tokaido series Hiroshige in Aritaya focus on letting the landscape tell the story instead of letting people or legend do that, although this is not followed through completely.

Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1804 Vertical

Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1804 Vertical
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BOD GmbH DE
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2024-08-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8411749843

Hokusai ́s 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1804 Vertical is something completely different from his 1801 and 1802 series and from the 1804 horizontal. It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji 1832, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life ́s work. This series shows his development of the themes based on the two first series, 1801 and 1802, and a transition to his 1804 horizontal series, which again is a precursor to his sublime 36 Views of Mt Fuji. As the reader progresses through Hokusai ́s Tokaido series it will become evident how Hokusai develops the concept, develops the format, the themes and then mixes them with true genius. This series is different from the many other well known 53 Stations of the Tokaido in that Hokusai does not focus only on the landscape and the markers that Hiroshige and others showed.

Hiroshige - Kunisada Two Brushes Tokaido

Hiroshige - Kunisada Two Brushes Tokaido
Author: Cristina Berna
Publisher: BOD GmbH DE
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2024-09-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8411238512

The cooperative work between Hiroshige and Kunisada (1854 -1855) is probably the most romantic of all the Tokaido editions. Both Hiroshige and Kunisada did their own individual versions with the same type of theme - a combination of landscape and often unrelated portraits based in legend and other motifs. But they did not rise to the level of elegance of the "Two Brush" Tokaido. The figures and the landscape are very well balanced and the colors are fresh and joyful. The "Two Brush" Tokaido is both a tour through the landscape of Japan and a cultural introduction. The reason for the combination of landscape and theater was to circumvent censorship of the popular kabuki theater prints.