#kuniyoshi

[enchantedbook]

Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage played by Frogs' by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1875.

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Fujiwara no Okikaze Walking through the Rain (no. 34 from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets) Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1798-1861) Date: early 1840s (Edo period) Genre: historical art, genre art Style: ukiyo-e Medium: color woodblock print Dimensions: 35.6 cm (14 in) high x 24 cm (9.4 in) wide Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, born Yoshisaburō, was a member of the prestigious Utagawa School and one of the last great practitioners of ukiyo-e. This print comes from a series illustrating the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu, containing one hundred waka, each by a different poet. Here, the noted waka poet Fujiwara no Okikaze, active in the early 10th century (Heian period), makes his way through the rain.

[louche-douche-deaux]

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, "The Amazing Juggler" 1952

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[susanoos-wife]

Miyamoto Musashi and the Whale Off the Coast of Hizen, by Kuniyoshi

[ceezedby]

The CAT-tastrophe of Japanese Art: Kuniyoshi’s Cat Obsession Explained 😸

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Shi Nai’an

Shui-Hu-Chuan 水滸傳 (I Briganti)

Suikoden musha

ôban

Tsûzoku Suikoden gôketsu hyaku-hachi-nin no hitori

通俗水滸傳濠傑百八人一個

Zhu Tong

Ding Desun

Ruan Xiaowu 

[detournementsmineurs]

"Octopus Buckle" by Karl Rothmüller in gilded silver, silver, opal, garnets and chalcedony (circa 1900), "Octopus and Butterfly Brooch" by Wilhelm Lucas von Cranach in gold, enamel, pearls, rubies, diamonds, amethysts and topaz (1900) and "Retrieving Treasure Ball from Dragon Palace" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (circa 1820-50) presented in “A History of Jewellery: Bedazzled (part 6: Art Nouveau 1890-1914)” by Beatriz Chadour-Sampson - International Jewellery Historian and Author - for the V&A Academy online, march 2024.