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Paul Binnie - Cho Musubi Bijin
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Paul Binnie released another exceptional bijin print - Cho Musubi. 'Bijin' stands for "beautiful women" and is a traditional subject in Japanese printmaking since the 18th century.
Paul Binnie - Cho Musubi
Eisen Ikeda 1790-1848 Ukiyo-e Master.
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Eisen Ikeda (1790-1848) is famous for his images of beautiful courtesans, called bijin-ga. And while the women depicted by Kitagawa Utamaro look more like skinny fashion models on a perpetual yoghurt diet, the girls designed by Eisen are normal, even a bit sturdy, and clad in a lush, richly decorated kimono - unless the great master preferred to depict them without clothes.
Eisen Ikeda - Biography
The 47 Ronin Popular story based on real events.
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The story of the 47 ronin is one of the best known samurai stories in and outside of Japan. The books, movies, TV films and theater performances are more than numerous. The story is based on real events that took place in feudal Japan of 1703.
The Story of the 47 Ronin
10 Types of Female Nudes Forbidden as Pornography.
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The Japanese painter and printmaker Ishikawa Toraji, 1875-1964 created a series of ten voluptuous nudes title "Ten Types of Female Nudes". The Japanese authorities banned the series for its "pornographic" nature.
Female Nudes by Ishikawa Toraji
Sano Seiji - born 1959 Student of Ido Masao.
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Sano Seiji is one of today's successful artists who live and work in Kyoto or in the rural areas around the old imperial city. The favorite subject of these artists is the beauty of old Japan. Sano Seiji combines the woodblock technique and romantic subjects in a masterly way. The results are images with a touch of impressionism.
Woodblock Prints by Sano Seiji
Waichi Hayashi - born 1951 Master of Color, Composition and Light
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Everybody speaks about globalization - the whole world one market place and the whole world a mix of Western commercial culture and local traditions. Strangely enough the field of contemporary Japanese printmaking is anything else than global. Japan has an immense affluence of great contemporary printmakers. But with a few exceptions most of them are little or not at all known outside Japan. We discovered Waichi Hayashi by recommendation of one of his students. His woodblock prints are mesmerizing.
Waichi Hayashi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi - 1537-1598 Second Unifier of Japan.
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the second unifier of Japan after a period of more than 100 years of civil wars that had ravaged the country. His career from a poor farmer's son to the most powerful man in Japan is more than unusual.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi - the Monkey Servant
Torii Kotondo - 1900-1976 Beautiful Women - Bijin Prints.
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Torii Kotondo made only 21 known prints - all of them images of beautiful women. They belong to the finest works of art of the Shin Hanga movement.
Torii Kotondo - Biography
Tatsumi Shimura 1907-1980 Beautiful Women.
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Before the war Tatsumi Shimura had worked for a woman's magazine. After the war he designed several prints of beautiful women. The women of his prints look very fashionable, trendy, beautiful and cute - with big eyelashes and a sensual lipstick mouth.
Tatsumi Shimura - Biography
Miki Suizan Selected Views of Kyoto
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Miki Suizan is one of the artists who made print designs for the Kyoto publisher Sato Shotaro. Six images of bijin - beautiful women - and eight landscape prints are among the finest of Shin Hanga.
Miki Suizan
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