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    The Artist in Edo Symposium

    Posted on April 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
    This 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...

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    Harunobu: Daruma, mitate, and feminine motifs

    Posted on September 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
    I 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...

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    Bathing Beauties

    Posted on September 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
    A 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...

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    Theatre Albums

    Posted on September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
    An upcoming auction at Leo Spik (in Germany) has a cool lot of 21 theatre albums. They include art from a number of Utagawa artists including Kunisada, Kunimori, and Kuniteru....

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    Fading in Prints

    Posted on September 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
    The 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...

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    Torii Kiyomasu II Print

    Posted on September 8, 2011 | 2 Comments
    I 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...

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    Hokusai: Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji

    Posted on August 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
    A 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...

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