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Print (BM 1915,0823,0.927.1-3 2), Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Shunsen Tsutsugamushi 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Fujiwara no Hirotsugu - A black and white drawing of a man on a horse

Portrait of Ren'an in a Landscape

Va ad adorare Ammone, a fargli libazione, ed offerirgli quattro vitelli di vario colore.

Feng Dao, WuShuangPu (1694, 1996)

Seven Brave Marines, an Advance Guard of Our Navy, Land on the Shore near Weihaiwei

Los dos enemigos, composición alegórica de J. Xaudaró

Utagawa Hiroshige - Mountains and Rivers Along the Kisokaidō

[A Russian woman is having a nightmare showing disasterous defeats of the Russian army and navy on all fronts in the war against Japan; she is being attended to by a doctor who is taking her pulse, two maids, and a member of the clergy, possibly a bishop]

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Signed on block with chop.

Includes extensive Japanese text.

Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.

From the series: Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō : Long live Japan: one hundred victories, one hundred laughs.

Format: vertical Oban Nishikie.

Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906.

Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress).

Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, moku-hanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Woodblock printing had been used in China for centuries to print books, long before the advent of movable type, but was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868). Woodblock printing appeared in Japan at the beginning of Edo period, when Tokugawa shogunate was ruled by th​e Japanese society. This technique originated from China, where it was used to print books for many centuries. Its original name is ‘moku-hanga’ and it has a wide usage in artistic genre of ‘ukiyo-e’. As opposed to western tradition, where artists used oil-based inks for woodcuts, moku-hanga technique uses water-based inks. That is why those prints had colors so vivid, as well as glazes, and transparency. This collection describes Japanese printmaking different schools and movements. The most notable of them were: - From 1700: Torii school - From 1700-1714: Kaigetsudō school - From 1720s: Katasukawa school, including the artists Shunsho and Shuntei - From 1725: Kawamata school including the artists Suzuki Harunobu and Koryusai - From 1786: Hokusai school, including the artists Hokusai, Hokuei and Gakutei - From 1794: Kitagawa school, including the artists Utamaro I, Kikumaro I and II - From 1842: Utagawa school, including the artists Kunisada and Hiroshige - From 1904: Sōsaku-hanga, "Creative Prints" movement - From 1915: Shin-hanga "New Prints" school, including Hasui Kawase and Hiroshi Yoshida Woodblock prints were provided by the Library of Congress and cover the period from 1600 to 1980.

This is a collection is depicting interactions with Westerners visiting Japan from the latter half of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period. Many artists started to document the rapid modernization of Japan. Their prints became more industrial, and in some cases depicting European tourists and their “strange” habits.

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01/01/1904
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Kobayashi, Kiyochika, 1847-1915, artist
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Japanese Woodblock Prints

Japanese Woodblock Prints from Library of Congress Collection. Woodcuts, which were made by moku-hanga technique from 1600 to 1980.

Gaijin Ukiyo-e

Meiji period woodblock prints depicting strange foreigners and their habits
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Court nobleman with three children

Russo-Japanese war series. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

16126.d.1(19)-The Japanese naval attack on Weihaiwei

16126.d.4(1)-Volume 1 of the illustrated book "Defeat the Japanese"

Headquarters at Takase. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Francisco Goya - Aquellos polbos.

The great sanitary fair, Philadelphia, 1864 - dining saloon

Fukuro no nezumi. Warship photograph collection

Standing beauty, Keisai Eisen - Publicd domain, Museum of New Zealand

Puppets and puppeteers, Utagawa Kunisada

map from "The Mexican War: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the Generals"

portrait from "The Victories of the British Armies, with anecdotes illustrative of modern warfare. By the author of “Stories of Waterloo” [i.e. William Hamilton Maxwell], etc. [With plates.]"

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russo japanese war social aspects nightmares victories japanese satires visual works woodcuts color russian woman a russian woman nightmare disasterous defeats disasterous defeats army russian army navy fronts war doctor pulse maids two maids member clergy bishop ukiyo e history of japan russian empire russia japanese woodblock prints japanese art japanese prints history of russia fine prints japanese pre 1915 kiyochika kobayashi russian woman ultra high resolution high resolution us navy meiji period us navy in japan japan library of congress public domain comics