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Lädt ... Utagawa Kuniyoshi: The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidovon Sarah E. Thompson, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist)
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 1   chuck_ralston | Dec 30, 2009 |    Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.For this series showing the overland route between the shogun's and the emperor's capitals, the landscape takes a minor role. Instead, Utagawa Kuniyoshi chooses to focus on heroes from legendary tales, characters from dramas, and historical figures. In each print, Kuniyoshi cleverly combines images within images and uses puns & wordplay in his titles to identify each station on the road. An example from one print "Ageo: Takao of the Miurya". In the print, a courtesan is being weighed against a heaping chest of gold. The story is from an urban legend that was made into a kabuki play where a lord offers to buy the contract for his favorite by paying her weight in gold. Ageo is the name of the station on the Kisokaido, but there's also a variety of wordplay and visual punning going on in the image: between the print title and Takao's name which uses similar characters; the name "Takao" was sort of an historic one since it was passed down over 'generations' of courtesans; the lord's name in the play was a stand-in name for an historical figure; and throughout the print there are visual references to Takao's signature maple leaf crest. The Edo-era viewer of this print and this series would be familiar with these stories and could readily appreciate Kuniyoshi's visual puns and word-play. Modern readers can begin to appreciate all of the intricacies of these prints thanks to the detailed descriptions by the author, an assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The introduction provides the necessary background to 19th century ukiyo-e and to Kuniyoshi, and the layout of the book, with the print title and description immediately facing the image, make this an easy and enjoyable read. (  ) SeiShonagon | Dec 2, 2009 | Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Over time the roads and the post stations became the subject of fiction as well as wood block prints. Two of the series of prints of the Kisokaido appeared in book form in recent years. One, by Hiroshige and Eisen, was originally printed between 1834 and 1843. Another, by Kuniyoshi, appeared in print in 1852-53. The former is probably the most known and is in the landscape style. The second, which is the subject of this book by Sara E. Thompson, includes instead of the artist's visual interpretation of the post station but stories from legends, dramas, fiction associated with the post stations. Of note, there is no evidence that any of these artists actually viewed the Kisokaido. Ms Thompson presents a very thorough introduction to Kuniyoshi's series, places it in context of Edo-era prints, gives much information about the history and culture. The prints are small but excellent in reproduction quality. Each print is accompanied by the story of the image, how it relates to the post station. This book is a great contribution to the knowledge of wood block prints as well as providing the reader with much information about the Japanese culture. ( ) catarina1 | Jul 27, 2009 | Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. goddesswashu | May 27, 2009 | Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.This Pomegranate Press book is beautifully produced with a sturdy binding, attractive dust jacket and well-printed color plates of each of the seventy-two prints in the series. Each part of the print is explained, the title, the small landscape in varying shapes of cartouche, the censors seal and the publishing information. Well worth the money as an additon to the library of anyone who cares about Japanese woodblock printing. ( ) jhhymas | Apr 29, 2009 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Originally published in 1852 and 1853, The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaid? is a richly entertaining series of woodblock prints created by master artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797-1861). The seventy-two finely executed prints include one for each resting point along the well-traveled Kisokaid? (Kiso Road)-a historic route stretching from Edo (modern Tokyo) to Kyoto-plus views of the two endpoint cities and an additional series title page. Kuniyoshi never traveled the mountainous Kisokaid?, but he drew from historic events, kabuki plays, popular legends, and classical literature to illustrate his vision of the towns and stations along the road.This stunning collection of colorful ukiyo-e prints exhibits Kuniyoshi's artistic mastery and clever sense of humor. Each work incorporates three elements: the main picture, an inset landscape depicting the particular station, and a title block. Using parody and pun (both for humor and to avoid government censorship), Kuniyoshi associated each point on the route with one of the most beloved stories of his day-from a reimagined Odyssey to the Japanese fairy tale of Urashima to popular kabuki scenes with courtesans and other "floating world" characters. He made that story the subject of the main picture and put clues to its identity in the title block. Kuniyoshi delighted in these hidden messages and used every inch of the paper to tell his story.Utagawa Kuniyoshi: The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaid? celebrates the beauty, charm, and ingenuity of Kuniyoshi's work with more than seventy-five full-color illustrations, including reproductions of all the prints in the treasured series. Sarah E. Thompson provides an introductory essay on the history of ukiyo-e and a description of each print.Sarah E. Thompson, Assistant Curator for Japanese Prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, received her PhD from Columbia University. She taught Japanese and Asian art history at Vassar College, Oberlin College, and the University of Oregon and curated several exhibitions of Japanese prints before coming to the MFA in 2004. She is now supervising the Japanese Print Access and Documentation Project, whose ultimate goal is to photograph and catalogue all fifty thousand Japanese prints in the MFA collection. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorSarah E. Thompsons Buch Utagawa Kuniyoshi: The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten.  Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder 
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The concept of evanescent, transient beauty of the immediate present expressed in images of landscape, in song, and in hedonistic ‘happy hour’ revelry, captivated Japanese artists in Japan’s early modern Edo or Tokugawa Period (1603-1868). Some other Ukiyo-E artists include: Moronubu (1618—1694), Utamaro (1753--1806), Hokusai (1760--1849), and Kuniyoshi’s contemporary, Hiroshige (1797—1858), whose work will be found in the Masterworks of Ukiyo-E series of color-illustrated, paperbound books published at Tokyo and Palo Alto, California, during 1968 and 1969, by Kodansha International.
The Kisokaido, as Thompson explains in her elegant and informative introduction, was the inland road between Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, and Edo (today’s Tokyo), headquarters of the Tokugawa shoguns (generals), on which travelers found sixty-nine stations, or official rest stops. The coastal route between the two major cities of Japan was the Tokaido, whose fifty-three stations were illustrated by Hiroshige, and its 300-plus miles walked in the 1920s by Muneshige Narazaki, author of Hiroshige: The 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Palo Alto: Kodansha, 1969)
This clothbound volume includes seventy-two colored prints (one of each of the 69 stations, plus one for each terminus point (Kyoto and Edo) and one of the original publication’s title page) with explanatory narrative about each print on facing pages. It includes also an introduction, bibliography, and index. (