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The Beautiful World of Rinpa
Right now, in New York City, there are two excellent exhibitions occurring which focus on the world of Rinpa art. Rinpa is something of an enigmatic artistic movement. Rinpa wasn’t a traditional…
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The Artist in Edo Symposium
Posted on April 15, 2012 | 1 CommentThis past Friday and Saturday I had the opportunity to attend The Artist in Edo Symposium, organized by the Freer Sackler gallery and National Gallery of Art. This exhibition was... -
Harunobu: Daruma, mitate, and feminine motifs
Posted on September 27, 2011 | 1 CommentI was recently reading the essay “Feminine Motifs in Bodhidharma Symbology in Japan“, it was really interesting to see the different ways in which bits of Buddhist lore were interwoven... -
Bathing Beauties
Posted on September 15, 2011 | 2 CommentsA very rare edition of Ito Shinsui’s famous “After the bath” print has come up for auction at Floating World Auctions. According to them this print is actually from Shinsui’s... -
Fading in Prints
Posted on September 11, 2011 | 1 CommentThe site Viewing Japanese Prints has two excellent articles on fading in Japanese prints. The first shows three prints, displayed above, by the same artist and from the same time... -
Torii Kiyomasu II Print
Posted on September 8, 2011 | 2 CommentsI ran across this particular print in a lot of Japanese prints at an auction at I.M. Chait. It was quite different from most of the other prints that one... -
Hokusai: Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsA copy of Hokusai’s Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji has come up for auction at Freeman’s Auction in Philadelphia. This is a Japanese Woodblock print book (which is a sub-category... -
The Japanese Print: An Interpretation
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright was an avid collector of Japanese Woodblock Prints. As it turns out, he also published a book as well (first released in 1912). A...