Okumura Masanobu chose for himself the theme of tender, feminine female actors-female performers. The fact that they are young men, only small purple caps indicate the shaven, as befits a
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Osen with a buffalo by Suzuki Harinobu
– an uncial phenomenon in the history of world art. The Japanese borrowed its technique from China. As early as the 13th century, small Buddhist icons and amulets were printed
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The moon over the cape by Ando Hiroshige
Having paired compositions of two wrestling actors on a vertical sheet of paper, Torii Keenobu introduces into the composition such movement and passion as before did not know the engraving.
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Poet Ono-no Komati by Katsushika Hokusai
Unlike Hokusai, whose landscapes are of a philosophical reflection on nature and man, Hiroshige is primarily a lyricist. In his landscape sheets of the 1830s-1840s, the artist’s attitude to nature
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Actors Ichikawa Yaodzo II and Ichikawa Dandzyuro V by Katsukawa Sjunse
Students and followers of Sünse continued to search creatively for the teacher, trying to approach the actor more and more, and more specifically to convey his appearance. Katsukawa Sjunko, for
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Tamagano in Takano by Suzuki Harinobu
In the 1830s and 1840s, lifeless compilative works appeared increasingly, in which purely formal expressiveness, a predilection for external effects, superseded the thin transmission of the mood of the model,
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Lovers in the Snowy Garden by Suzuki Harinobu
She informed the townspeople about certain aspects of the life of the capital, about fashion, more precisely about the fashionable fabrics for the women’s dress, about the stars of the
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Morning mist in Mishima by Ando Hiroshige
Landscapes of Hokusai have something in common with the classical painting of Japan, and with ukieh of the XVIII century, but at the same time are fundamentally different from them.
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Kissing from the tea house Omusia by Isoda Koryusai
Both genres have not lost their leading position throughout the history of engraving. Their style changed, which was due to a variety of circumstances, most often related to the cultural
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Geisha, stirring coals in the brazier by Hosoda Aisi
In his works, the characteristic features of the Ukiyo-e landscape receive the most vivid and perfect embodiment. Already in the early landscape series of Hiroshige, such as “Toto Maysa”, “Tokaido
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Fujisawa Station by Utagawa Kuniesi
In theatrical engraving from the very beginning, images of monks – family coats of arms of actors, which in greatly enlarged form adorned their kimono were widely used. Monas themselves
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Sedan by Kitagawa Utamaro
In one of the engravings Harunobu showed Osen, a riding buffalo, loaded with two huge wicker baskets, and in baskets – love confessions and letters. So in a figurative form,
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