“The Great Wave,” Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print from the early 1830s, may be the most famous artwork in Japanese history, and its popularity isn’t cresting anytime soon. By Ellen Gamerman | via Wall Street Journal | March 18, 2015 | Image: Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ (1830-31) Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The image of a wave towering over…
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the magic in twilight
‘Water and Shadow’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts engenders a renewed appreciation for the emotional range printmakers can achieve. article by LEE LAWRENCE | via Wall Street Journal Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Through March 29 An island silhouetted in the moonlight, yellow grasses drying…
Here’s How Japan Marketed Its Sprawling Red-Light District Hundreds Of Years Ago
Article by Mallika Rao | The Huffington Post Hosoda Eishi (1756–1829) Contest of Passion in the Four Seasons (Shiki kyo-en zu), late 1790s–early 1800s; one of a set of four hanging scrolls; ink, colour and gold on silk, Michael Fornitz collection. It was a stroke of marketing genius on the part of the madams and pimps…
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