Ikenaga Yasunari

The winner of Grand Prix 8th Tatehiko Suga announced.

Ikenaga Yasunari has won the Horable Mention Prize .

Suga Tatehiko (1878-1963) was a Japanese-style painter from Tottori. He learned different painting styles from his father and by himself. He created his unique style based on sketches. He received a high acclaim with the serial works featuring the old Osaka culture, which he produced in his later years.

You can check a part of his award winnig here.

And please visit his special page in Shukado' homepage.

If you get his works, please check here.

New Catalog VOL.32

Today, we will write about our new catalog.
Shukado Catalog VOL.32  has issued.
Special features are Watanabe Seitei, Heike vs Genji and Utagawa Hiroshige.

Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918) was a Japanese-style painter from Edo, who studied under Kikuchi Yosai and Shibata Zeshin. He excelled at Kachoga (Bird-and-Flower Painting). His artworks capturing oil painting texture produced after his stay in Europe were highly evaluated in Europe. He also handled a lot of wood-block prints and illustrations.

We will show you one of Seitei'work from the catalog.

Watanabe Seitei "Autumn with Beautiful Leaves"

There are 10piece of Seitei's works in the catalog.

And you check alot of other items, for example Kawai Gyokudo, Kainosho Tadaoto, Kikuchi Yosai

and so on.

If you get interested our catalog, Please check here!

Japanese Ghosts

Ghosts are popular theme for Ukiyo-e.

And in summer exhibitions of Ghost works are often held at museums.

Today we will show you a “ghost ukiyo-e”

　　　　　　　　　　　Toyokuni Ⅲ　"Ghost of Koheiji"　$938.00

This ukiyo-e was depicted from a scene of kabuki.

This season depicted in the work is consider mid summer, obon season.

Souls are believed to return to their families during obon season.

I think you can see a cow made by eggplant.

That is a special item to offer the souls.

Because cows are a slow walker, it is believed that souls would return to

 the netherworld.

Now, a exhibition of ghosts is held In Fukuoka prefecture.

You can see above item in the exhibition.

We recommend the check of its website.

It is very interesting. (sorry only Japanese)

And please check the category "ghosts" in our web site.

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

This year is one hundred  twentieth anniversary of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's death.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi(1839-1892) was an artist of Japanese paintings, taught by Ichiyusai or Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

He created modern ukiyo-e depicting warriors, actors and beauties and many sensational pieces. Since circa 1873, he created art pieces with unique drawing techniques based on timely topics.

His drawing technique depicting a moving motion as a stop motion can also be found in modern Manga cartoons, thus some people call him as a pioneering cartoonist.
Today, We introduce to you his outstanding works  "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
(Tsuki Hyakushi)"
He took seven years to complete this great artwork consisted of 100 pieces.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "Chika over Asano River, 100 Aspects of the Moon"
Here depicted is “Chika”, a ground-daughter of Zeniya Gohei who was running a money exchange shop in Kaga (present Kanazawa Pref.) in the Edo period. Gohei launched a business on the reclamation works in his later years, but opposite people spread a bad rumor on him in connection to an accident caused by a contaminated fish, and he was put in a jail despite not guilty and died behind the bars. Chika kept protesting his grand-father’s innocence and visited the shrine for prayer every night which harmed his health. She seemed to have passed away at 26.
Chika in the piece shown wears a sad expression. Her loose clothes might suggest her short life. 

You can check other items of One Hundred Aspects of the Moon here.
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