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RF2HG3F0N–19th century Japanese painting. School of Matahei painting. Reproduction of book illustration of 1912
RMPAX49C–Tale of a Strange Marriage (Konkai Zoshi). Artist: Ukita Ikkei (Japanese, 1795-1859). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 11 3/4 in. x 25 ft. 6 in. (29.8 x 777.2 cm). Date: ca. 1858. Satirical paintings with animals standing in for humans have a long history in Japanese art. A special genre of such paintings involves foxes, which are believed to transform themselves into humans on moonlit nights. This somewhat eerie depiction of a fox wedding under an autumn moon expresses the artist's biting criticism of the Tokugawa shogunate and its attempt to shore up its waning authority by marrying an imperi
RMT965KW–Japanese children rolling large snow balls. Ukiyo-e (picture of the floating world) is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century. The landscape genre has come to dominate Western perceptions of ukiyo-e, though ukiyo-e had a long history preceding these late-era masters.
RM2A604TE–Japanese diptych print shows Perry's steamship in bottom right panel;map of the coast of Soshu in left panel;various Japanese coats of arms in upper half of both panels
RM2B01A2W–Japan: Socialist Realist poster for the Japanese Artists Proletarian Federation, 1931. Between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, Japanese graphic design as represented in advertsing posters, magazine covers and book covers underwent a series of changes characterised by increasing Western influence, a growing middle class, industrialisation and militarisation, as well as (initially) left wing political ideals and (subsequently) right wing nationalism and the influence of European Fascist art forms.
RM2BWAGMW–Unique Japanese Art Mr Take Sato , exhibition at St George ' s gallery , is a painter of silk . His colours are cleverly mixed and very differently from the western method . All his colours are sent from the east and when unable to obtain suitable colours he buys beads or a coral necklace and crushes them to the desired colour . 8 October 1922
RM2BD1H68–A Girl in a Japanese Gown, The Kimono 1887, William Merritt Chase 1849-1916 United States of America USA American
RM2CWBF63–Standing Beauty Arranging Her Hair', c1714. Artist: Ando Kaigetsudo. Ando Kaigetsudo(1671-1743) was a Japanese painter and the founder of the Kaigetsudo school of ukiyo-e art.
RM2JRWAYF–1970s, two teenage female judo competitors in combat, with their hands and arms locked in a hold position in this martial art, England, UK. Badges on one of the jackets, British Judo Association and Downs. Created in 1882 by Dr Jigoro Kano, a Japanese educationalist as a derivity of a martial art, Judo does not use striking or training weapons as other martial arts, with it's emphasis on grappling, with throwing and groundwork. Introduced to the UK in 1918, the British Judo Association was formed in 1948.
RME13REE–Mar. 27, 2012 - Concrete Art; Japanese sculptors are exhibiting their work created from blocks of white cementin hibiys Park, in the heart of Tokyo this week. Photo Shows Statues of concrete by Japanese Sculptors on public view in the park.
RM2HHWAJC–Tale of a Strange Marriage (Konkai Zoshi) ca. 1858 Ukita Ikkei Japanese Satirical paintings with animals standing in for humans have a long history in Japanese art. A special genre of such paintings involves foxes, which are believed to transform themselves into humans on moonlit nights. This somewhat eerie depiction of a fox wedding under an autumn moon expresses the artist’s biting criticism of the Tokugawa shogunate and its attempt to shore up its waning authority by marrying an imperial princess to the shogun. The artist, Ukita Ikkei, was an important member of opposition political circles
RM2HHDXGJ–Tiger by Japanese artist Ohara Koson, 1877 - 1945. Ohara Koson was part of the shin-hanga, or new prints movement.
RF2HG3F0X–19th century Japanese painting: Plum Branch and Nightingales. By Hoyen. Reproduction of book illustration of 1912
RF2X5B7H7–Ancient Bronze Art. Japanese vase. Publication of the book 'Meyers Konversations-Lexikon', Volume 7, Leipzig, Germany, 1910
RMT965TB–Kachoga. Unidentified bird picking grapes from a vine. Ukiyo-e (picture of the floating world) is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century. The landscape genre has come to dominate Western perceptions of ukiyo-e, though ukiyo-e had a long history preceding these late-era masters.
RM2A604T0–Gasshukoku suishi teitoku kojogaki (Oral statement by the American Navy admiral). circa 1870. Japanese print shows three men, two seated and one standing, possibly Commander Anan, age 54;Perry, age 49;Captain Henry Adams, age 59.
RM2B01A85–Japan: National Bonds for the Sino-Japanese War, Ministry of Finance, 1937. The child waves the flags of Japan and Manchukuo, the Japanese occupied puppet state of Manchuria. During late 1920s and 1930s Japan, a new poster style developed that reflected the growing influence of the masses in Japanese society. These art posters were strongly influenced by the emerging political forces of Communism and Fascism in Europe and the Soviet Union, adopting a style that incorporated bold slogans with artistic themes ranging from Leftist socialist realism through Stateism.
RM2BWAGMB–Unique Japanese Art Mr Take Sato , exhibition at St George ' s gallery , is a painter of silk . His colours are cleverly mixed and very differently from the western method . All his colours are sent from the east and when unable to obtain suitable colours he buys beads or a coral necklace and crushes them to the desired colour . Here Mr Sato mixes his colours 8 October 1922
RMDYF1EE–Ryu ko niban : Tiger and dragon no. 2 by Gogaku Yajima, active 19th century, Japanese artist. Printed between 1818 and 1830. Print shows a woman playing a koto with a dragon curled around her.
RM2AB06HP–Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543 – 1616) founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which effectively ruled Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
RM2GCE3JC–Vintage Japanese art. Servant at an Inn by Utamaro. Kitagawa Utamaro c. 1753 to 1806 was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded prac
RME13RHC–Mar. 27, 2012 - Concrete Art.: Japanese Sculptors are exhibiting their work created from blocks of white cementin Hibiya Park, in the heart of Tokyo this week. Photo Shows Statues of Concrete by apanese Scultors on public view in the Park.
RM2CB7E04–Japanese traditional theater, theatrical performance in Yeso, Japan. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894
RMAPTXJR–Japanese 3 panel art This is panel 3 of 3 Three actors in the roles of Nagoya Sanzaburo Katsuragi and Fuwa Banzaemon
RMCB5YJ6–Japanese Mythology fantasy cartoon Japan art flying animal scared beast storm magic myth mythology wizard
RM2J7GGH9–Heron in a Storm, by Japanese artist Ohara Koson, 1877 - 1945. Ohara Koson was part of the shin-hanga, or new prints movement.
RMBMFG0B–Japanese Ladies on Imari porcelain, Porcelain Museum in the Art Collection Dresdner Zwinger, Dresden, Germany
RMT965N1–Fukagawa susaki jumantsubo. Hawk flying above a snowy landscape along the coastline. Ukiyo-e (picture of the floating world) is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century.The landscape genre has come to dominate Western perceptions of ukiyo-e.
RM2A60525–Ujigawa no senjin arasoi sasaki takatsuna (Sasaki no Takatsuna at the Battle of Uji River); by Shigemasa Kitao; 1739-1820; artist. Print shows the warrior Sasaki no Takatsuna on horseback just offshore shooting an arrow during the Battle of the Uji River.
RM2B01892–Japan: Poster for the Second Sino-Japanese War Exhibition, Osaka, 1938. Exposition poster art in Japan between approximately 1925 and 1941 mirrors the rapid militarisation of society and the growth of militarism, statism and fascism during the Showa Era. In the 1920s expo poster art features elements of modern art and even Art Deco. Themes are whimsical and outward looking, representing Japan's growing importance and influence in the world of international commerce and art. By the 1930s this kind of poster art had grown much more bleak and less concerned with human themes.
RMDYF1PH–Humorous picture showing Chinese religious practices (Raijin, the Japanese God of Thunder, ranting to a crowd of Chinese Buddhist worshippers). By Kiyochika Kobayashi, 1847-1915, Japanese artist. From the series: Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakusho : Long live Japan: one hundred victories, one hundred laughs. 1895
RM2AB06D5–100 Aspects of the Moon No. 7, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: 'Mount Inaba Moon' 1885, 12th month. The young Toyotomi Hideyoshi (then named Kinoshita Tōkichirō) leads a small group assaulting the castle on Mount Inaba by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
RM2GDJAHN–Vintage illustration of Maid helping dress a young woman in traditional Japanese costume, Das Album, Jacques Wely
RME13RT5–Mar. 27, 2012 - Concrete Art: Japanese sculptors are exhibiting their work created from blocks of white cementin hibiya Park, in the heart of Tokyo this week. Photo shows statues of concrete by Japanese sculptors on public view in the park.
RMAPTY4K–Japanese 3 panel art This is panel 1 of 3 Three actors in the roles of Nagoya Sanzaburo Katsuragi and Fuwa Banzaemon
RF2PPX0D6–Katsushika Hokusai : Lilies Ancient Japanese colour print from the book ' A history of Japanese colour-prints ' by Woldemar von Seidlitz, 1850-1922 Publisher London : Heinemann 1910
RM2HHDXH8–Rabbits at Full Moon by Japanese artist Ohara Koson, 1877 - 1945. Ohara Koson was part of the shin-hanga, or new prints movement.
RF2HG3F0P–19th century Japanese painting: Farm Huts and Well-sweep. By Hoyen. Reproduction of book illustration of 1912
RMBMFFTH–Japanese porcelain vases Kakiemon style (1680-1700) Porcelain Museum in the Art Collection, Dresden, Germany
RMT965KK–Geta no yukitori. Removing snow from one's clogs. Woman holding an umbrella while a female servant removes snow from her geta. Ukiyo-e (picture of the floating world) is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century. Isoda Koryusai, 1776.
RF2DBJ8ND–Japanese art, illustration by Morikawa Sobun (1847-1902), bird in tree, Chromo-lithograph from 1896 The Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and App
RM2JJF7CA–Japan: 'Fair Travellers Fording the River Oi'. Part of a triptych woodblock print by Utagawa Toyokuni (1769 - 24 February 1825), c. 1800. Utagawa Toyokuni, also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his gō (art-name after he died) was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his Kabuki actor prints. Utagawa was one of the heads of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the person who really moved it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century.
RM2TBHTB3–A sketch by Frank H Mason of Japanese bombers bombing and torpedoing the Royal Navy warships,HMS 'Prince of Wales' and 'Repulse', as the sailed to intercept a Japanese convoy near Malaya during the Second World War. The attack on the 10th December 1941 resulted in the loss of both ships.
RMDYF177–Amerika, Furansu, Nankin (American, French, Chinese). by Hiroshige Utagawa, 1826?-1869, Japanese artist. 1860. Japanese print shows three spectators viewing an unseen object or event: a woman holding a drinking vessel sits beside a man gazing through binoculars while a Chinese man touches his head.
RM2AB06CR–The Lonely House on Adachi Moor (1885) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi In the folktale The hag of Adachigahara, a cannibalistic old woman preys upon travellers, particularly pregnant women and children, on the Adachi Moor in northern Japan. In this scene, the hag is sharpening the knife she will use to kill her heavily pregnant captive and the unborn child. Created in 1885, The lonely house on Adachi Moor is macabre but, by not showing the actual moment of violence, it is less bloody than some of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s earlier prints, such as those for the 1867 series Twenty-eight famous murders.
RM2DA0Y07–Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926 -- The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, Giverny.
RM2GDJAHW–Vintage illustration of Maid helping dress a young woman in traditional Japanese costume, Das Album, Jacques Wely
RME0WJ70–May 21, 1963 - Japanese garden at the contemporary art exhibition in Paris: At the same time as the fair in Paris a ''Contemporary Art'' exhibition is held in the city's ''Grand Palais''. The most prominent works of the world's greatest architects, sculptors and painters are to be seen there as well gardens of the four continents, designed by the most ''Avant Harde'' Designers. Photo shows a Japanese garden presented by two charming Japanese hostess.
RMAPTXWJ–Japanese 3 panel art This is panel 2 of 3 Three actors in the roles of Nagoya Sanzaburo Katsuragi and Fuwa Banzaemon
RF2PPX0HA–Utagawa Hiroshige : Bridge in Rain Ancient Japanese colour print from the book ' A history of Japanese colour-prints ' by Woldemar von Seidlitz, 1850-1922 Publisher London : Heinemann 1910
RM2A1F998–Three Seagulls, by Japanese artist Ohara Koson, 1877 - 1945. Ohara Koson was part of the shin-hanga, or new prints movement.
RF2HG3F10–19th century Japanese painting: Fine Study of Flowers, Foliage and Birds. By Giokuho. Reproduction of book illustration of 1912
RM2K9G55Y–1970s, historical, inside, on a mat, two girls competing in the sport of judo, a physical activity that involves two people wrestling and trying to throw each other to the ground. Judo is a Japanese word meaning 'art of gentleness' and derives from the ancient Japanese martial art of jujitsu.
RMT965MT–Bikunibashi setchu. Bikuni bridge in snow. Porter walking in ankle-deep snow at the approach to the Bikuni bridge. Ukiyo-e (picture of the floating world) is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century. The landscape genre has come to dominate Western perceptions of ukiyo-e.
RMMC85E3–Cartomancy. Eight Japanese playing cards, each used in the card game known as 'Flower Matching' or Hana Awasa. From C.P. Hargrave 'A History of Playing Cards' 1929.
RM2B02HAE–Oda Nobunaga (June 23, 1534 – June 21, 1582) was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the rule of the shogun in the late 16th century, a rule that ended only with the opening of Japan to the Western world in 1868. He was also a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. His work was continued, completed and finalized by his successors Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy shugo (military governor) with land holdings in Owari Province. Nobunaga lived a life of continuous military conquest, eventually conquering a thi
RM2TBHTFP–A drawing by Arthur J. W. Burgess of the Battle of Midway in the North Pacific in June 1942. During the Second World War battle, the Japanese lost 18,000 men, 275 aircraft and several warships including 'Kaga' class aircraft carriers from attacks by bomb and torpedo carrying aircraft of the United States.
RMDYF17A–Tokyo Nihonbashi han ei no zu : Flourishing Nihonbashi section of Tokyo. By Yoshitora Utagawa, active 1850-1870, Japanese artist. Published 1861. Japanese triptych print shows various modes of transportation on street in Tokyo, Japan. Includes title page cover sheet with title and name of artist inscribed in ink brush. circa 1860
RM2AB06H9–Looking suitable: the appearance of a brothel geisha of the Koka era, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1844- 1848)
RM2GTDHXF–Vintage japanese print of the dancer Shirabyoshi who performs before the Shogun Yoritomo som eportion of a Noh Dance.
RME0WK30–Apr. 04, 1963 - The Japanese art of flower arrangements; is taught in the (Kebana school of the ladie's studio in Frankfurt, Germany, The know how of displaying lovely flowers on tables or in vases is one of the finest arts which is learned by Japanese women. Miss Etsuko Shimado (right foreground), champion of Ikebana and teacher at teh Shogetsu school in Tokyo is acting as teacher in the Frankfurt school. Together with an assistant girl, she shows some of her students how to arrange flowers in the Japanese style.
RMB785TW–Japan Art Collection (JAC) is a genre of Japanese traditional art drawings, woodblock prints, woodcuts and paintings.
RF2PPX07N–Suzuki Harunobu : The Bowl of Gold-fish Ancient Japanese colour print from the book ' A history of Japanese colour-prints ' by Woldemar von Seidlitz, 1850-1922 Publisher London : Heinemann 1910
RM2A12P6W–Kingfisher Hunting For Fish, by Japanese artist Ohara Koson, 1877 - 1945. Ohara Koson was part of the shin-hanga, or new prints movement.
RF2HG3F0H–19th century Japanese painting: Sleeping Fox. By Tetsuzan. Reproduction of book illustration of 1912 Mori Tetsuzan (1775–1841) was a Japanese painter
RM2K9G565–1970s, historical, inside, on a mat, two girls competing in the sport of judo, a physical activity that involves two people wrestling and trying to throw each other to the ground. Judo is a Japanese word meaning 'art of gentleness' and derives from the ancient Japanese martial art of jujitsu.
RMT965N8–Kaki mogi. Picking persimmons. A young man holding a young woman on his shoulders as she reaches to pick persimmons from a branch above them. Ukiyo-e (picture of the floating world) is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century.
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