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Hasui Kawase (川瀬 巴水, Kawase Hasui, May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a Japanese artist who was one of 20th century Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by yōga (Western-style ...
"The Night's Fountain" Vol.1 1 November 1938 Edited and published by:Kansuke Yamamoto Photo by Kansuke Yamamoto "VOU" Vol.30 1940 Cover photo by Kansuke Yamamoto. The oldest of his existing works is called "Aru Ningen no Shisou no Hatten・・・Moya to Shinshitsu(The Developing Thought of a Human...Mist and Bedroom)", which was published in a magazine in 1932.
The Ueno Royal Museum (上野の森美術館, Ueno-no-Mori Bijutsukan) opened in Ueno Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, in 1972. [1] Owned by Fujisankei Communications Group [2] [3] and managed by the Japan Art Association, [1] the museum focuses on contemporary art [4] with exhibitions including the regular Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition [] and Japanese Nature Painting Exhibition (日本 ...
A Cultural Landscape (文化的景観, bunkateki keikan) is a government-designated [1] landscape in Japan, which has evolved together with the way of life and geocultural features of a region, and which is indispensable for understanding the lifestyle of the Japanese people. Cultural Landscapes are recognized by the government of under article ...
Woodblock prints such as these were produced in large numbers in 18th- and 19th-century Japan, created by artists, block cutters and printers working independently to the instructions of specialist publishers. Prints such as these were called ukiyo-e, which means 'pictures of the floating world'. This world was one of transient delights and ...
[17] [18] The exhibition subsequently toured to The Aberdeen Art Gallery Scotland, [19] and then formed his solo exhibition in Japan ‘Portraits from Edo to the Present’ [20] [21] [22] at The Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum, where the paintings were exhibited alongside Hiroshige's original The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō ...
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The work is a development of suibokuga (水墨画, ink-wash paintings) made with Chinese ink (墨, sumi), using dark and light shades on a silk or paper medium.It combines naturalistic Chinese ideas of ink painting by Muqi Fachang (Chinese: 牧溪法常; pinyin: Mu-ch'i Fa-ch'ang) with themes from the Japanese yamato-e (大和絵) landscape tradition, influenced by the "splashed ink" (溌墨 ...