Woodblock Japan
Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Wall-mounted Sculptures
Beech
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Prints
Paper
1860s Edo Figurative Prints
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Prints
Glass, Wood, Paint, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Brocade, Silk
Mid-20th Century Japanese Decorative Art
Wood
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Ceramic
Antique 19th Century Japanese Chinese Export Prints
Wood
1890s Edo Landscape Prints
Handmade Paper, Mulberry Paper, Woodcut
1990s Edo More Prints
Ink, Washi Paper, Woodcut
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Mid-Century Modern Books
Paper
1840s Edo Figurative Prints
Woodcut, Mulberry Paper
1850s Modern Portrait Prints
Paper, Woodcut
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
1830s Edo Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Early 20th Century Prints
Paper
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Antique 1880s Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
2010s Abstract Paintings
Gold Leaf
Antique 1880s Prints
Paper
1930s Showa Landscape Prints
Woodcut
1850s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Early 2000s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique 1890s Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique Early 1800s Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique 1850s Japanese Edo Prints
Paper
Vintage 1970s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Vintage 1980s Japanese Japonisme Prints
Paper
Vintage 1980s Japanese Other Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
1990s Japanese Other Decorative Art
Glass, Wood, Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
1980s Edo Landscape Prints
Ink, Handmade Paper
1850s Prints and Multiples
Woodcut
1960s Edo Landscape Prints
Ink, Handmade Paper
Mid-20th Century Showa Still-life Prints
Mulberry Paper, Woodcut
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Bring Authentic Japanese Woodblock Prints into Your Home
For concision, power and delight, it’s hard to beat authentic Japanese woodblock prints, the products of an artistic tradition that is aging very well indeed.
The genre, unique to Japan, grew out of 17th-century developments in printing and book publishing. The form became known as “picture of the floating world,” an evocative name that captures the dreaminess of many of the scenes (which were often erotic). In an overview of the years from 1680 to 1938 in Taschen’s Japanese Woodblock Prints, author Andreas Marks presents the reader with a brief history of the development of woodblocks, describing for example how extra colors were added, and then devotes most of the following chapters to significant individual artists over the centuries. Four of the most common subjects are delineated: beauties, actors, landscapes and bird-and-flower compositions. Famous for book illustrations as well as paintings, Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai captured the grand power of nature by depicting Mount Fuji, Japan’s tallest peak, as a tiny triangle seemingly being swallowed by an enormous wave in his The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Some of the great creators of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), are still well known, their works frequently shown in museums today. European artists like Van Gogh and Manet were indelibly influenced by them, for reasons that are plain.
But Marks’s stated aim is to spread his attention around and not “single out the handful of ‘stars’ commonly found in books and exhibitions.” Some of the later talents covered in his compendium — like the relatively unfamiliar Yamamura Koka (also known as Toyonari), whose beguiling 1920s works convey suggestions of the Jazz Age — the heady, optimistic era between the end of World War I and the crash of 1929 — may be the biggest revelations.
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