Japanese Art

Beautiful Japanese and asian artist, old and modern, architecture, painting, design, filming and images

[nonconcept]

Ecocapsule by NICE Architects.

Dwelling with the spirit of freedom.

[arrests]

Hibiscus and Sparrow, by Katsushika Hokusai

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Katsushika Hokusai anniversary 10May Japanese Art

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The Fuji from Gotenyama at Shinagawa on the Tokaido ~ Katsushika Hokusai

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Katsushika Hokusai anniversary 10May Japanese Art

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Ukiyo-e Artists: Katsushika Hokusai (October 31, 1760 – May 10, 1849)

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Katsushika Hokusai anniversary 10May Japanese Art

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by Katsushika Hokusai

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Katsushika Hokusai anniversary 10May Japanese Art

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Waves, by Hokusai

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Katsushika Hokusai anniversary 10May Japanese Art

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Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai died on this day in 1849.

These are three stunning woodblock prints from his famous Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series.

Hokusai (1769-1849) was the first great designer of landscape prints. Before him, most print designers created images of beautiful women or kabuki actors. Then, in the 1820s and 1830s, Hokusai produced his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series which showed the sacred mountain from different viewpoints, during different seasons and at different times of day.

With its simple colour schemes and bold compositions it was stylistically ground-breaking, combining elements of Japanese, Chinese and Western painting.

Many 19th-century European artists collected Hokusai’s prints – including Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Klimt, Manet and van Gogh – and without him Impressionism may never have happened.

Top: Fuji seen from Isawa, Kai Province, at daybreak, rising out of the mists Middle: Sekiya Villages on the Sumida River Bottom: Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō Road

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Poppies (from an untitled series of Flowers)  -    Katsushika Hokusai , 1833-34

Japanese  1760-1849

Colour woodblock print,  25.4 x 36.5 cm

 Art Institute of Chicago.

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Katsushika Hokusai anniversary 10May Japanese Art

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by しかさん

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Sou Fujimoto - House NA. Tokyo, Japan. 2010.

Photo: Iwan Baan

Designed for a young couple in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, the 914 square-foot transparent house contrasts the typical concrete block walls seen in most of Japan’s dense residential areas. Associated with the concept of living within a tree, the spacious interior is comprised of 21 individual floor plates, all situated at various heights, that satisfy the clients desire to live as nomads within their own home.

Sou Fujimoto states, “The intriguing point of a tree is that these places are not hermetically isolated but are connected to one another in its unique relativity. To hear one’s voice from across and above, hopping over to another branch, a discussion taking place across branches by members from separate branches. These are some of the moments of richness encountered through such spatially dense living.”

Via: mooponto

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笛吹市M･O邸 // Tekuto Atelier {ph cr. Sobashima Toshihiro}

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無印良品の家  の名古屋東店

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Company Building in Kanagawa // HMAA {ph cr. Nobuki Taoaka}

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Flathouse. Rannma House / 欄間の家. Japan. photos: Takumi Ota

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Japanese Lady Writing

Found in Ruby Lane.

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I’m happy to be able to finally share these 2 paintings I did as commission for ConQuest experience, which is launching a beta test of their concept at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival. These two late 1600s Edo Japan paintings will be backgrounds to an interactive story experience. Link to the details of this experience’s app is here: http://conquestexperience.com/#3 hooray my painting is on there ! (≧▽≦) 

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The Akashi Bathhouse 1847