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Gyotaku (魚拓, from gyo "fish" + taku "stone impression", fish print(ing)) is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s. This form of nature printing , where ink is applied to a fish which is then pressed onto paper, was used by fishermen to record their catches, but has also become an art ...
Includes a Japanese garden designed by Hoichi Kurisu, covers 14 acres, including a 4-1/2 acre lake. This is a chisen kaiyu-shiki or “wet strolling garden.” Duke Farms: Hillsborough: New Jersey: The Japanese section includes a small teahouse, a wood bridge, fuji, azaleas, primrose, crocus, and a karesansui dry garden. Earl Burns Miller ...
The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is a center for Japanese arts and culture located west of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The campus includes two museum buildings, the Roji-en Japanese Gardens : Garden of the Drops of Dew, a bonsai garden, library, gift shop, and a Japanese restaurant, called the Cornell Cafe ...
Japan Tokyo Suntory Museum of Art [1] Japan Tokyo Tokyo National Museum: Art, archaeology and history [1] Japan Tokyo Yamatane Museum: 1,800 Japan Osaka National Museum of Art, Osaka: 8,200 (As of February 2022) Modern art [3] Japan Tokyo Sumida Hokusai Museum: Ukiyoe prints; P. Morse collection, M. Narashige collection [4] [5] [6] Poland
Utamakura (歌まくら, "poem[s] of the pillow") is a book of 12 erotic prints attributed to Utamaro, published in 1788. [10] The first print depicts a pair of kappa river creatures raping an ama diver underwater. [11] Her hair flows with the running current, [12] and small, seemingly curious fish swim near. [13]
The Hōeidō edition of the Tōkaidō is Hiroshige's best known work, and the best sold ever ukiyo-e Japanese prints. [2] Coming just after Hokusai 's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, it established this new major theme of ukiyo-e , the landscape print, or fūkei-ga , with a special focus on "famous views".
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏, Kanagawa-oki nami-ura) print by Hokusai Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e [1] artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period.
Many of Yoshitoshi's prints of the 1860s are depictions of graphic violence and death. These themes were partly inspired by the death of Yoshitoshi's father in 1863 and by the lawlessness and violence of the Japan surrounding him, which was simultaneously experiencing the breakdown of the feudal system imposed by the Tokugawa shogunate, as well as the effect of contact with Westerners.