ukiyo-e: nature outside and in

November 22, 2008 – February, 2009

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The following selection of woodblock prints features landscapes, bucolic activities, flora and fauna, and representations of mythic animals and forces from Japanese legend.  The designs span three centuries of artistic creativity.  They reflect the Japanese love of the natural world and its appropriation into their most intimate surroundings.

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thumbnail 21. Kasagawa Higezo struggling with a bull
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892)
1865-6
$850

thumbnail 22. Yokohama-e, Foreigner and a family of dwarfs
Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. c. 1840 - 1880)
1861
$1,200

 
thumbnail 23. Mariko in a Hammock
Kajita Hanko (1870 - 1917)
ca. 1900
$850

thumbnail 24. Woman with Hagoita
Keishu Takeuchi (1861 - 1943)
ca. 1900
$600
 
thumbnail 25. Crane with Nestlings in Pine Tree
Ohara Shoson [aka Koson] (1877 - 1945)
c. 1910
$900

thumbnail 26. Crow on Willow Branch in Snow
Ohara Shoson [aka Koson] (1877 - 1945)
c. 1910
$900

 
thumbnail 27. "Ikoku kotoba" (Foreign Words)
Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833 - 1904)
c. 1861
$1,200
thumbnail 28. Zen chi cho from the Nogaku Zue
Tsukioka Kogyo (1860 - 1927)
1897 - 1902
                                                 $850
 
thumbnail 29. Flounder
Seiho Takeuchi (1864 - 1942)
1937
$600
thumbnail 30. Meoto Iwa (husband and wife rocks)
Wada Tokutaro, publisher, compiled by Seitei Watanabe
                                                    20 August 1891
                                                   $500

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