tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post111977423795109644..comments2023-04-11T07:49:48.611-07:00Comments on Daruma Pilgrims in Japan: HokusaiGabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-89147006357630595782021-09-30T21:55:09.165-07:002021-09-30T21:55:09.165-07:00October 2021
Hokusai rarities go on show in Londo...October 2021 <br />Hokusai rarities go on show in London<br />British Museum to show more than 100 unseen Hokusai works<br />Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything <br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-14977870195266602632018-03-31T17:56:49.037-07:002018-03-31T17:56:49.037-07:00Tengu with a long nose
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ht...<b>Tengu with a long nose</b><br />and<br />森羅万象 Shinra Bansho<br />.<br />https://kappapedia.blogspot.jp/2016/08/hana-long-nose-of-tengu.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-45988242454754426122017-12-24T19:51:23.885-08:002017-12-24T19:51:23.885-08:00Hokusai and Japonisme
The ukiyo-e master of the ...<b>Hokusai and Japonisme </b><br /><br />The ukiyo-e master of the late Edo period, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), is an artist renowned and loved throughout the world. By studying European art styles entering Japan from the Netherlands via the island of Dejima, Hokusai acquired command of novel art techniques unknown in ukiyo-e and rose to popularity. As an artist who ceaselessly explored daring new directions, he created powerfully imaginative works that revolutionized Japanese art.<br /><br />In the late 1850s, when Japan ended its seclusion policy and Westerners began visiting the country, many had already seen Hokusai’s works. This owed, above all, to his 15-volume Hokusai Manga collection of block-printed sketches, which was already in use as a source of illustrations for books about Japan. Western visitors purchased Hokusai’s ukiyo-e prints, art manuals, and illustrations as souvenirs and took large quantities of his work back to their countries, where it entered circulation in the local markets. Western interest in Japanese art was hardly limited to Hokusai, yet he enjoyed overwhelming popularity, along with Hiroshige.<br /><br />Japanese art captured the admiration of Western artists pursuing innovative new styles of expression and, as a result, the "Japonisme" craze was born. Hokusai, among all Japanese artists, most frequently served as a reference for this style. Works of Japonisme sourced in his Hokusai Manga, One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji landscape picture book, and Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji woodblock prints appeared in great numbers.<br /><br />Hokusai’s art had a dramatic impact, first, on the artists of Impressionism such as Monet, Degas, and Cézanne, and later on such Post-Impressionist artists as Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, and Les Nabis. Across the entire Western sphere—Germany, Australia, Spain, England, America, and Eastern and Northern Europe—Hokusai’s methods were explored and researched, and they gave momentum to new creation in painting, print art, sculpture, posters, and the decorative arts.<br /><br />This exhibition will examine several aspects of Japonisme in 6 sections with the aim of showing how particular characteristics of Hokusai’s art contributed to the development of modern Western art. Some 220 works of Western art and some 40 color woodblock prints and 70 woodblock-printed books will be exhibited. (Some objects may be rotated during the exhibition period. Exhibition lineup may change as circumstances require.)<br /><br />http://hokusai-japonisme.jp/english.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-81023855797483933602017-02-15T21:12:31.291-08:002017-02-15T21:12:31.291-08:00The 1000 Mangas by
HOKUSAI, Katsushika (1760 - 184...<b>The 1000 Mangas by<br />HOKUSAI, Katsushika (1760 - 1849) </b><br />Visipix.com publishes here the complete<br />15 volumes in facsimile quality.<br />This is a world premiere in the internet<br />.<br />Hokusai's "landscape format pictures" were cut and printed on two adjacent pages as separate "portrait format pictures".<br />.<br />As far as we know, you are now the first persons in history who can enjoy all the full-page mangas the way Hokusai would have liked people to see them.<br /><br />Visipix.com presents its own new English translation of all texts and titles and the interpretation of many stories told by the pictures.<br /><br />A complete edition, probably early Meiji period, right after the publication of the 15th volume from Hannes Kellers collection was scanned. The volumes 4 and 5 from another edition were published earlier by visipix, but at that time not in facsimile quality.<br />.<br />HERE<br />http://www.visipix.com/sites/specials/hokusai/hoku_start.htm<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-22933279127742377792016-12-06T12:58:36.912-08:002016-12-06T12:58:36.912-08:00Yoshi Kusaba wrote (PMJS forum):
• Manga origins....Yoshi Kusaba wrote (PMJS forum):<br /><br />• Manga origins. The expression “manga” in Japanese can mean either “comic” and “funny picture” (manga, 漫画 also written as マンガ) or “variety picture” (漫画 also pronounced manga) depending on how the word is written in Chinese characters [“kanji” (漢字) characters as pronounced in Japanese, literally, Han character writing; “kan (漢),” a reference to the Han period of Chinese history, and “ji (字),” written character]. The two “man” sounds spelled in different characters (マン and 漫) are pronounced the same as “man” while the word “ga” (画) means “picture.” This is where an interesting interpolation takes place from the original “Manga” of the 19th century to the modern “manga” of the 20th and 21st century.<br /><br /> <br />• Original meaning of Manga. “Manga” can mean both “comical” picture and “variety” picture. The former is the result of the latter, which originates in the “Manga” (漫画) series of books the ukiyo-e (浮世絵) artist Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎), 1760-1849, put together at the request of his publisher in the early 19th century (北斎漫画). In this case, the expression “manga” means “variety picture,” or it can also suggest “ten thousand pictures,” an indication of many pictures. Hokusai himself used the expression “manga” (漫画), in the introduction to the first volume, explaining his “casual picture drawing,” “sketch,” “free drawing” collection of pictures [漫 (すず)ろに描く, or 漫然といろいろなものを描く]. <br /><br /><br />Hokusai in his long career kept sketches for his ukiyo-e woodblock print designs, which his publisher determined as having a commercial value. As a result, a series of 15-volume bound books with the title of Manga are published containing these Hokusai sketches. Some have comical observations while others are illustrations of heroes, historical characters, mythical beasts and things of nature. Because some sketches are funny, and because the same word “man” can also be spelled with a character “funny, comic,” the notion of contemporary comic books evolved. <br /><br />Each of the 15 volumes has some 30 bi-folio sheets (one sheet folded into two providing two printed pages). The total page numbers are close to 900 pages (60 bi-folio pages x 15 volumes = 900, or more precisely, 836 pages) for approximately 2600 pictures in all. The first volume came out in 1814, and the last 15th volume was published only in 1878 well after Hokusai had died in 1849.<br />.<br />https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pmjs/lVazjVo7_VM<br />.<br />Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-72433985639075307152015-05-22T21:51:35.228-07:002015-05-22T21:51:35.228-07:00- quote
Ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai is one o...- quote<br />Ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai is one of Japan’s best-known artists. His print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” with its giant blue wave curling over a tiny Mount Fuji, is seen on T-shirts and coffee mugs around the world. Given his multifarious talent, vast energy and long life — Hokusai died in Tokyo (then called Edo) at age 88 in 1849 — I had long thought of him as a Japanese Picasso.<br />.<br />Keiichi Hara <br />Japan Times 2015<br />.<br />Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-48940176290896849532014-12-15T21:13:04.518-08:002014-12-15T21:13:04.518-08:00"Recycling Paper," Katsushika Hokusai (1..."Recycling Paper," Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) - Illustration for "The Fulling-block Shell (Kinuta gai)" from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)."<br />- “Awase” (or matching) was a favorite pastime for the Japanese nobility during the Edo period. The game either involved poetry (uta-awase, as this print) or pictures (e-awase). The game consisted in... “comparing” and sometimes “matching” poetry or pictures based on aesthetics. When playing with shells (as this print) one had to “match” or “join” shells (kai-awase), and for that 360 clam shells were used with each baring an image or a poem. Often these shells were kept in elaborate boxes and were part of a lady’s wedding trousseau. See More<br />— at The Library of Congress.<br />.<br />https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.207589726029494.42671.207467629375037&type=1<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-20703070289052374762014-12-15T21:12:13.961-08:002014-12-15T21:12:13.961-08:00One page from "The Quick Pictorial Dictionary...One page from "The Quick Pictorial Dictionary (Ehon hayabiki)", Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) - 1817-1819.<br />- Woodblock printed book. — at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.<br />.<br />https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.207589726029494.42671.207467629375037&type=1<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-43967396286172696102014-08-09T22:17:09.084-07:002014-08-09T22:17:09.084-07:00Two pilgrims looking at waterfall while other pilg...Two pilgrims looking at waterfall while other pilgrims rest in nearby shelter.<br />美濃国養老の滝 Mino no kuni yoro no taki<br /><br />Hokusai, 1832<br />.<br />http://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2014/08/nishi-mino-pilgrims.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-78930727077185847542014-08-02T23:04:23.364-07:002014-08-02T23:04:23.364-07:00Shita-kiri Suzume (舌切り雀 shita-kiri suzume)
"T...Shita-kiri Suzume (舌切り雀 shita-kiri suzume)<br />"Tongue-Cut Sparrow"<br />is a traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and jealousy on the characters.<br /><br />Illustration by Hokusai!<br />.<br />http://edoflourishing.blogspot.jp/2014/08/nori-starch-glue.htmlGabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-36497605681439037852014-07-24T18:09:37.782-07:002014-07-24T18:09:37.782-07:00相州大山石尊権現 Oyama Sekison Gongen
Fudo Myo-O waterfal...相州大山石尊権現 Oyama Sekison Gongen<br />Fudo Myo-O waterfall<br />.<br />http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2005/02/oyama-fudo.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-42695078531262582542014-07-22T21:47:42.009-07:002014-07-22T21:47:42.009-07:00Waterfalls in Edo
Tootoo Aoigaoka no Taki 東都葵ケ岡の...Waterfalls in Edo<br /><br /><br />Tootoo Aoigaoka no Taki 東都葵ケ岡の滝 Aoigaoka Waterfall in Edo<br />Now near 赤坂溜池 Akasaka Pool, Nagata Cho 永田町<br />.<br /><br />http://edoflourishing.blogspot.jp/2014/07/taki-waterfall-edo.htmlGabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-9567821853276776622013-05-08T17:34:14.391-07:002013-05-08T17:34:14.391-07:00Blind People and Elephant 盲人と象 - Hokusai
.Blind People and Elephant 盲人と象 - Hokusai<br /><br />.Gabi Greve - WKDhttp://happyhaiku.blogspot.jp/2006/12/blind-people-haiku.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-80653388117297539832009-03-28T16:58:00.000-07:002009-03-28T16:58:00.000-07:00Japan TimesUncovering an ukiyo-e master in ObuseBy...Japan Times<BR/><BR/>Uncovering an ukiyo-e master in Obuse<BR/>By MANDY BARTOK<BR/><BR/>Known locally for its apples and sweet chestnuts, this rural community would likely have remained in wider obscurity were it not for the retirement plans of one of Japan's most famous artists — ukiyo-e (woodblock print) master Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).<BR/><BR/>Hokusai's masterpieces rank among Japan's most recognizable works of art. His woodblock prints garnered immense acclaim throughout his career, but his fame was assured for posterity with the publication of the captivating series titled, "36 Views of Mount Fuji."<BR/><BR/>The striking images of a snow-capped Fuji are imprinted in many an ukiyo-e fan's mind; thanks to modern commercialism, they also grace everything from coasters to coffee mugs to canvas bags. And in Obuse, even the manhole covers — decorated with etchings of his famous "Great Wave off Kanagawa" — pay tribute to this acknowledged legend. <BR/><BR/>Hokusai first came to Obuse near the end of his life, at the behest of his patron, wealthy farmer and salt merchant Takai Kozan. Already in his 80s, the woodblock artist born in Edo (present-day Tokyo) had no intention of slowing down in his twilight years. Instead, in the peace and serenity of the countryside, he devoted himself to brush painting, breaking away from the genre of ukiyo-e to turn out masterpieces in the style of Chinese classical art, such as the striking "Dragon Flying Over Mount Fuji" (1849). <BR/><BR/>As death approached, he left many of his last works to the town and temples of Obuse. It's a move that has turned the quiet agriculture village into a key stop on the cultural tourist's trail.<BR/><BR/>Obuse also attracts visitors with its locally grown chestnuts. In shops around town, chestnut products abound, from baked goods and chestnut-themed set lunches to the ubiquitous chestnut-flavored ice cream cones. The sweet smell of roasting chestnuts wafting from the main square tantalizes many a hungry visitor, but if your nose needs a little assistance to track down the local treats, let the chestnut-decorated sidewalks steer you in the right direction. <BR/>...<BR/>On a corner of Obuse's main square, the Hokusai Museum opened in 1972 and houses the town's best collection of the artist's work. Inside, two oversize festival-float panels take pride of place in a first-floor exhibition room. Bold strokes of color blend seamlessly together on the wood, capturing the forms of a dragon, a phoenix and opposing tsunami waves. The panels were designed to adorn the interiors of two grand floats, the Higashi-machi and Kan-machi ones that were used in the town's many shrine festivals. <BR/>In other rooms, visitors can examine Hokusai's exquisite scroll paintings or marvel at the detail of his early black-and-white ukiyo-e prints. Upstairs, a series of sketches showcasing peasant life rounds out the superb collection.<BR/><BR/>Outside the museum, a narrow chestnut-inlaid path leads past a group of renovated mustard-hued storehouses to the Takai Kozan Memorial Hall. Named for the art enthusiast who funded Hokusai's Obuse retreats, the manicured grounds of the courtyard contain the tiny studio where Hokusai worked on his final pieces.<BR/>...<BR/>The storehouse museum also displays drawings by Kozan himself, though the hidden gem of this complex is the attached sake brewery. The Masuichi-Ichimura Brewery, owned by descendants of Takai Kozan, has been producing its popular sake for 254 years. The business is currently managed by an American woman named Sarah Cummings, an arrangement uncommon in the male-dominated realm of sake. Under her direction, the brewery recently switched back to the traditional use of oke barrels (wooden barrels held together with bamboo straps) in their sake production.<BR/><BR/>...<BR/><BR/>On weekends and in the summer months, a tourist shuttle bus does the rounds of Obuse's major sights, mostly ferrying weary visitors out to Gansho-in Temple, the location of Hokusai's largest painting. I went in the off season, when walking was the only way to get there — but the 2-km hike was worth every step on the way, if only to peek into Obuse's many attractive backyard gardens. In an attempt to boost tourism and attract visitors, local officials have recently implemented the Obuse Open Garden program. More than 90 Obuse homes and businesses have since landscaped and opened their yards to curious visitors. So, if the sign is out and the gate is unlatched, feel free to walk in and enjoy the surroundings.<BR/><BR/>My half-hour ramble to Gansho-in Temple found me at the base of the region's often snow-covered peaks. Surrounded by vistas of apple orchards, the temple is a peaceful home to Hokusai's Chinese phoenix painting. The work was one of the artist's last, completed when he was 89 years old. <BR/><BR/>The best view of the phoenix, which glares down at visitors from the temple ceiling, is apparently from flat on one's back, as evidenced by the handful of visitors I spied lying across the room's benches. With a reassuring smile from the temple caretakers, I sprawled out on the tatami mats and gazed toward heaven. A magnificent Chinese phoenix spread its emerald- and tangerine-colored wings across the roof, illuminating the tiny hall. The paint Hokusai used was allegedly mixed with jewels, and the brilliant colors of the mythical bird have yet to fade, a fitting legacy for an artist as highly valued today as he ever was. <BR/>http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fv20090329a1.htmlanonymoushttp://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fv20090329a1.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9404072.post-37202150308361094432008-01-17T08:43:00.000-08:002008-01-17T08:43:00.000-08:00pretty cool wave by emilepretty cool wave by emileshannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05372812359017800987noreply@blogger.com