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    Art Complete set of Hokusai's Fujisan woodblock prints on auction in March

    A rare complete set of 46 ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai featuring Fujisan will go up for sale at Christie's in New York in March 2024. The auction house expects the prints in the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" series, made between 1830 and 1833, to fetch a total price "in the...
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    Art Christie’s: Hokusai’s Great Wave print sold for $2.8m

    One of the most iconic ukiyo-e woodblock prints has sold for $2.76 million at the Christie's auction house in New York, a record for a print by Katsushika Hokusai. https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Arts/Hokusai-s-Great-Wave-print-sells-for-record-2.8m-in-New-York
  3. Kanazawa Hakkei (The Eight Famous Views of Kanazawa)

    Kanazawa Hakkei (The Eight Famous Views of Kanazawa)

    Kanazawa Hakkei (金沢八景) is a series of eight scenic ukiyo-e depictions of two villages in former Musashi Province, Mutsuurashō (六浦荘村) and Kanazawa (金沢村) Village located in modern-day Kanazawa Ward of Yokohama. It is also a common name for the area around Kanazawa-Hakkei Station on Keikyū Line...
  4. huntedjapan

    Japanese Art 🏮⛩

    Good morning everyone! l opened an Instagram account dedicated to Japanese Art in a different point of view: Monsters👹, demons👺, ghosts🏮and Folklore creatures🐲. I’m a japanese language and culture graduated student, so if you are interested please check it out. The page name is: @huntedjapan...
  5. Shin-Ohashi Bridge

    Shin-Ohashi Bridge

    Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親, 1847-1915), View of Tokyo's Shin-Ohashi bridge in Rain (1876)
  6. Tsuki hyakushi

    Tsuki hyakushi

    Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) aka Taiso Yoshitoshi (大蘇芳年, 1839-1892), Tsuki hyakushi ("One hundred aspects of the moon").
  7. Chushingura

    Chushingura

    Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Chūshingura jūchidanme yo’uchi no zu, c. 1835
  8. Eight night views of Kanazawa

    Eight night views of Kanazawa

    Andō Hiroshige, Night View of Eight Scenic Places in Kanazawa (武陽金沢八勝夜景 Buyō Kanazawa hasshō yakei)
  9. Fine wind clear morning

    Fine wind clear morning

    Katsushika Hokusai, Fine Wind, Clear Morning (凱風快晴, Gaifū kaisei, literally South Wind, Clear Sky), also known as Red Fuji.
  10. The Great Wave off Kanagawa

    The Great Wave off Kanagawa

    Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa (first published between 1826 and 1833)
  11. Chobunsai Eishi

    Chobunsai Eishi

    Chōbunsai Eishi (鳥文斎栄之, 1756-1829), Courtesans of the Ōgiya, colour woodblock print, c. 1800
  12. Fukaku shinobu koi

    Fukaku shinobu koi

    Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿, 1753-1806), Fukaku Shinobu Koi (c. 1793–94), from Kasen Koi no Bu (歌撰恋之部, "Anthology of Poems: The Love Section").
  13. Kubo Shunman

    Kubo Shunman

    Kubo Shunman (窪 俊満, 1757-1820), group of women (before 1821)
  14. Kugatsu isaribi

    Kugatsu isaribi

    Colour woodcut by Torii Kiyonaga (1784): Kugatsu: isaribi (九月 漁火), “The Ninth Month: fishing boat lights", from the series Minami jūnikō (美 南 見 十二 候," Twelve months in the south ")
  15. Ehon mushi erami

    Ehon mushi erami

    Kitagawa Utamaro's (喜多川歌麿, 1753-1806) Insect Book (画本虫えらみ Ehon mushi erami)
  16. Azuma Kyōka Bunko

    Azuma Kyōka Bunko

    Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyoden), Azuma Kyōka Bunko (吾妻曲狂歌文庫), 1786
  17. Handaka Sonja

    Handaka Sonja

    Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信), parody with Young Girl as a Daoist Immortal Handaka Sonja Conjuring a Dragon from a Bowl (見立半託迦 龍の飛び出す鉢を持つ女), 1765.
  18. Ukiyo-e - The Art of the Japanese Print

    Culture Ukiyo-e - The Art of the Japanese Print

    The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years ago. Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print takes a thematic approach to this iconic Japanese art form, considering prints by subject...
  19. Onogawa Kisaburo

    Onogawa Kisaburo

    Katsukawa Shun'ei: Onogawa Kisaburō, the 5th Yokozuna
  20. Matsumoto Koshiro III

    Matsumoto Koshiro III

    Ippitsusai Bunchō (一筆斎文調): the actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Soga no Goro
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