Old Time Japan

美しい自然、豊かな文化、幸せな人々の国　　Vintage Old Japan Photography,Art,Ukiyo-e,Shin-hanga,etc. http://oldtimejapan.sakura.ne.jp/

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Japanese Noh costume, Meiji era (19th century). MFA.  Via Pinterest

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi. A collection of popular masks (Ryūkō menzukushi). Two fan prints, 1842.

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Artist: Ito Shinsui Title: Mosquito Net, from the First Series of Modern Beauties Date: 1929 Medium: Color woodblock print; oban Credit Line: Bequest of Henry C. Schwab

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Tsukioka of the Kagaya.  Ukiyo-e woodblock print.  About 1800,  Japan.  Artist Utagawa Toyokuni I

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"Poetess Ono-No-Komachi washing off a verse in a poetry book" by artist Ogata Korin. From A History of Japanese Arts v.2 [1913] compiled by Mataichi Fukuchi and Yoshio Kino. Full text here.

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"The Cat's Dream" by Utamaro from Siegfried Bing's Artistic Japan v.6 (1891).

Full text here.

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Early 20th century, Geisha wearing a wisteria-motif kimono. Image hand-colored.

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Japanese Noh costume, Meiji era (19th century). MFA.  Via Pinterest

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From “Geisha Party” series, Kyoto, 1946 by Alfred Eisenstaedt.  Image via Pinterest

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“Miko - Japanese shrine maiden.” Hand-colored photo, 1880’s, Japan. Photographer Kusakabe Kimbei.. Image via noel45 of Flickr

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Artist: Yoshida Hiroshi Title: Kumoi Cherry Trees (Kumoi sakura) Date: 1926 Medium: Color woodblock print Credit Line: Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.

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Habōki (羽箒): feathers for brushing ash off the rim of the sunken hearth (Ro)

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Otsuki Fields in Kai Province from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) 

歌川広重作「冨士三十六景 甲斐大月の原」

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Picture of the Exiled Councilor Yukihira Ason Amusing Himself with the Two Divers Murasame and Matsukaze at Suma Beach, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, December 1886, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

two separate sheets; beach scene; seated young man at left in profile from PR, wearing a white blouse and lavender skirt with white floral patterns, with hair tied on top of his head, and a brown, green and white fan resting against his leg; two standing topless woman with long loose hair at right, one wearing a blue flowered skirt and the other wearing a red skirt with stars and sunbursts; shells and fish on beach between man and women Size: 14 ¾ × 9 15/16 in. (37.47 × 25.24 cm) (sheet, each, approx., vertical ōban diptych) Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

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Hand-colored photo.  About late 19th century, Japan