Kunisada
Published: circa 1846-1847
Description: Sensual night scene with three biijin over a go board, with the moon, river, and mountain in the background. Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kunisada
Published: 1857
Description: One of several go prints depicting a bijin reading a letter seated at, or standing over, a go board. Series: "Genji gojuyo-jo" (The 54 Amourous Chapters of Genji), subtitled "Chapter 4." Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kunisada
Published: around 1850
Description: These are the center and right sheets of a triptych, showing actors on stage with a go board. Comment: Fortunately, the two sheets work well together, which isn't always the case when one of the three sheets is missing. Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kunisada
Description: It shows the courtesan
Takuhijo talking to a maid. There's a bijiin playing go in the back
room, with part of the board showing.
Series: "36 Courtesans #1" Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kunisada
Series: "36 Courtesans #1"
Comment: Prints depicting life in the Yoshiwara often extolled both the womanly virtues and good character of the courtesans, as well as their professional capabilities. Woodblock prints were used as advertisements, play bills, political statements (in which case neither the artist nor publisher dared sign them), decoration (for the common class only)and the equivalent of comic books. Highly valued today, they only cost a few cents in the 18th & 19th centuries, and were even used as packing material in crates of merchandise. Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kuniyoshi
Description: woodprint (ukiyo-e)
Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kuniyoshi
Description: woodprint (ukiyo-e)
Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kuniyoshi
Description: woodprint (ukiyo-e)
Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kuniyoshi
Description: woodprint (ukiyo-e)
Copyright: Douglas Cable |
Kuniyoshi
Description: woodprint (ukiyo-e)
Copyright: Douglas Cable |
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