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SAMURAI JAPANESE WOODBLOCK ANTIQUE PRINT KUNIYOSHI EDO
| Start Price |
GBP 275.00 |
| Current Price |
GBP 275.00 |
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| Start Time |
Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| End Time |
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| Location |
YO26 8EW |
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SAMURAI JAPANESE WOODBLOCK ANTIQUE PRINT KUNIYOSHI EDO SAMURAI JAPANESE WOODBLOCK ANTIQUE PRINT KUNIYOSHI EDO On offer from own collection is a fabulous original Kuniyoshi woodblock print. It is framed and glazed and ready to hang. Unlike many prints of this age it is in great over-all condition. Many other examples are torn and worm eaten.Kuniyoshi Utagawa is one of the outstanding Ukiyo-e artists of the late Edo period in the 19th century. He was born in Edo (Tokyo) in 1797 - when Europe was still under the influence of the shock waves of the French revolution. Student of the Utagawa School Information about the childhood of Kuniyoshi is a bit in the mist. His father was a silk-dyer and the given name of the boy was Yoshisaburo. The young Yoshisaburo apparently developed a passion for drawing at a very early age. At the age of 14, he joined the famous Utagawa school, then headed by the great master Toyokuni Utagawa (1769 - 1825). According to other sources, he had been trained by Katsukawa Shuntei before. Toyokuni gave his talented student Yoshisaburo the name Kuniyoshi. At that time it was the habit, that a student who had entered an art school, received a new artist name that was connected to the master's name. The name was created from the ending kuni of Toyokuni and the beginning of the boy's name Yoshisaburo. After having left the Utagawa School, he had a tough time to make a living as an ukiyo-e artist. He was even forced to earn his living by repairing and selling floor-mats.Kuniyoshi and Warrior Prints Angel - Paragons of Filial Piety by Kuniyoshi Utagawa 1797-1861 copyright protected Kuniyoshi achieved his commercial and artistic breakthrough in 1827 with the first 6 designs of the series The 108 heroes of the Suikoden. The series was about 108 rebels and honorary bandits, based on an old Chinese novel from the 14th century. The story was very popular in Japan. The artist continued with this pattern of success and concentrated on print subjects of warriors and heroes. He was even nicknamed Warrior print Kuniyoshi. After being financially settled, he turned to other subjects - ghost stories, comic prints, landscapes, beautiful women and actor prints. The artist also tried his luck with another subject, natural life prints, showing animals like birds, fish and cats. This kind of new subjects, like the landscape prints, had been made popular by Hiroshige before - against all odds.It measures approx 9.5 inches by 7 inches and approx 17 inches by 15 inches in its frame.Please refer to the photos for condition and please feel free to email any questions about this auction or, if you are in any way dis-satified, once auction has ended. I sell internationally with success, so bid confidently in this wonderful opportunity!Please press the Lovejoy sign to take you to more of my great auctions on Ebay. I was an international collector in quality antiques and now am slowly liquidating my collection in order to finance my new career 'treading the boards'. I am putting excellant investment and collecting opportunities within the grasp of everybody's pocket.I am also downsizing and getting rid of many of my items from home too!! Feel free to email about anything to do with this auction. middlemarch Store
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