101 Great Samurai Prints

Author : Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486155226
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Great Samurai Prints written by Utagawa Kuniyoshi and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuniyoshi was a master of the warrior woodblock print — and these 18th-century illustrations represent the pinnacle of his craft. Full-color portraits of renowned Japanese samurais pulse with movement, passion, and remarkably fine detail.

Author : Charles Vilnis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048648355X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Warriors written by Charles Vilnis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant compilation features more than 100 hard-to-find examples of works by a noted Japanese woodblock artist including depictions of heavily armored samurai, battle scenes, and well-defended fortresses. Drawn from a series of volumes originally published in 1862, the dynamic images offer authentic views of warrior life during the Edo period.Dover Original.

Author : Kunisada Utagawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840683158
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 47 Ronin written by Kunisada Utagawa and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ukiyo-e Master Special edition of Kunisada's 47 Ronin contains not only Kunisada's complete set of 48 samurai prints, reproduced in full-size and full-colour, but also reference prints from Kuniyoshi's classic series of 1847, complimenting each image. The book also features A.B. Mitford's definitive Legend of the 47 Ronin, the first English-languge version of the story from 1871. This text is illustrated with 47 Ronin prints by varoius other classic ukiyo-e artists, including Yoshitora, Yoshitoshi, and Kunichika, bringing the total number of colour prints in the book to over 100.

Author : De Anima Books
Publisher : De Anima Books
ISBN 13 : 1492757632
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utagawa Kuniyoshi's 47 Ronin written by De Anima Books and published by De Anima Books. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of loyalty, obstinacy and unusual honor, carried out by 47 Samurai to avenge the death of his master. To avenge him, these Samurai carefully planned the attack for almost two years, even leading a common life of workers and traders, many of them living a lazy and idle life in order to outwit his enemies. Even though everyone should commit "seppuku" (ritual suicide) if the mission were to materialize, the Samurai went ahead and avenged their master. In this book were used prints and traditional Japanese Mino washi (Mino paper, originally created in the Nara period in the eighth century A.D.) scanned in high definition, with the purpose of recreating the atmosphere of Japanese high visual refinement. The 131 illustrations in this book are by master Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), one of the greatest of the art school of Japanese woodblock Ukiyo-e.

Author : Roger S. Keyes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Woodblock Prints written by Roger S. Keyes and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ming-Ju Sun
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486465578
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samurai Arms and Armor written by Ming-Ju Sun and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painstakingly researched, 30 accurate, detailed illustrations depict the samurai and the tools of their trade: koshozan helmets, armor of metal and leather, su-yari spears, a wall-gun, and other weaponry used on horseback, at sea, and in training.

Author : Kendall H. Brown
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486476405
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties written by Kendall H. Brown and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes, villains, and damsels in distress abound in these richly colored, dramatic images from the Japanese equivalent of dime-store novels. These illustrations were selected from woodblock-printed covers and frontispiece illustrations from 64 popular books published in Osaka from 1898 through 1903. They include samurai and strong men, demons and detectives, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, and other vivid characters in scenarios ranging from romantic to grotesquely violent. Printed in the color woodblock method in use since the late eighteenth century, they provide a link between an ancient storytelling tradition and the beginning of mass-published popular literature. Created during the Meiji era (1868–1912), when Japanese society was changing dramatically with the influx of Western technology and values, these images appealed to a wide audience of newly literate readers. Their scenes of retribution and sacrifice reflect a modern consciousness of Japanese history and a longing for an idealized vision of the past, marked by traditional values of loyalty, filial piety, self-sacrifice, and chivalry. Long considered a disposable form of popular culture, these books were not carefully preserved or collected. This collection, assembled by an expert on Japanese art, offers a rare glimpse of a newly rediscovered art form.

Author : Marty Noble
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486476510
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color Your Own Japanese Woodblock Prints written by Marty Noble and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorists of all ages will appreciate these graceful courtesans, mountainous landscapes, and other images from the woodblock tradition. Thirty meticulous renderings include masterly works by Kunisada, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Eisen, and Toyokuni.

Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Tiny Folios (Hardcover Japanes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Prints written by Art Institute of Chicago and published by Tiny Folios (Hardcover Japanes. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amy Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501188542
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stranger in the Shogun's City written by Amy Stanley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).