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Utagawa Toyokuni
, also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the Utagawa school, members of his school who took over his ''gō'' (art-name) after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabuki actor prints. He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of moku hanga, Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who elevated it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century. Biography He was born, the son of Kurahashi Gorobei, a carver of dolls and puppets, including replicas of kabuki actors. At around 14, Toyokuni was apprenticed to the first head of the Utagawa house, Utagawa Toyoharu, whom his father knew well and who lived nearby. One of his fellow pupils under Toyoharu was Toyohiro, whose pupil was the great landscape artist Hiroshige. In recognition of his artistic ability, Toyokuni later took the name Utagawa Toyokuni, following the common practice of using one syllable of his master's na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyokuni Utagawa I By Kunisada Cropped
Toyokuni may refer to: * Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints * Utagawa Toyokuni II (1777–1835), designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints, also known as Toyoshige * Utagawa Toyokuni III (1786–1865), designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints, also known as Kunisada * Toyokuni Fukuma (1893–1942), Japanese sumo wrestler * Toyokuni Susumu (born 1937), Japanese sumo wrestler * Toyo Province, or also ''Toyo Kuni'', an old province of Japan, in the areas of Ōita and Fukuoka Prefectures * Toyokuni Shrine (other), several Shinto shrines dedicated to shōgun Toyotomi Hideyoshi {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Utagawa School Members
This article contains a list of the members of the Utagawa school of Japanese artists, whose members designed paintings and woodblock prints in the ukiyo-e style from the late Edo period to the end of the Meiji period. Naming The art-names of the artists were not produced through a consistent scheme. The artists of the second generation generally formed their art-names by taking the first ''kanji'' of their teacher's name, and adding a different second ''kanji'' (e.g. Toyoharu, whose student was Toyohiro). Beginning with the third generation, the names were mainly created by starting with the second ''kanji'' of the teacher's name, and adding another one to it (e.g. Toyokuni and his student Kunisada). However, in some cases during this stage the first kanji of the teacher's name was still used for the creation of name (e.g. Toyokuni and Toyoshige). Another, rare, variant was the use of the second ''kanji'' of the teacher's name as the second kanji of the pupil's name (e.g. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udinotti Museum Of Figurative Art
The Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art is a non-profit 501(c)3 museum located in Paradise Valley, Arizona. The museum was founded by sculptor, painter, printmaker, poet, and gallery owner Agnese Udinotti in 2007. The collection focuses on figurative art from (Ancient Egyptian) to the present. 'The primary goal of the museum is to educate the public about the historical evolution and importance of figurative art."Haldiman, Philip, ''PV resident's museum lauds figurative art'', ''The Arizona Republic'', December 25, 2013 The museum is not open to the public for tours. Collection The museum’s collection includes art by: * Leonard Baskin * Rafael Coronel * Stephen De Staebler * Franz Duckers * Konishi Hirosada * Don Reitz * Mauricio Toussaint * Utagawa Toyokuni , also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the Utagawa school, members of his school who took over his ''gō'' (art-name) after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyokuni III
Utagawa Kunisada (; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (, ), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. Evaluation of Kunisada in art history At the end of the Edo period (1603–1867), Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the three best representatives of the Japanese color woodcut in Edo (capital city of Japan, now Tokyo). However, among European and American collectors of Japanese prints, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, all three of these artists were actually regarded as rather inferior to the greats of classical ukiyo-e, and therefore as having contributed considerably to the downfall of their art. For this reason, some referred to their works as "decadent". Beginning in the 1930s and 1970s, res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyoshige
Toyoshige is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Toyoshige can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *豊重, "bountiful, heavy" *豊茂, "bountiful, luxuriant" *豊繁, "bountiful, prosperous/complexity" *登代重, "climb up, generation, heavy" The name can also be written in hiragana とよしげ or katakana トヨシゲ. Notable people with the name * Utagawa Toyoshige (歌川 豊重, 1777–1835) a Japanese ukiyo-e artist also known as Toyokuni II (二代目 歌川 豊国). *, a Japanese ''daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and no ...''. {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi ; 30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) was a Japanese printmaker.Louis-Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005)"Tsukoka Kōgyō"in ''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 1000. Yoshitoshi has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of Woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of Edo period Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Like many Japanese, Yoshitoshi was interested in new things from the rest of the world, but over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many aspects of traditional Japanese culture, among them traditional woodblock printing. By the end of his career, Yoshitoshi was in an almost single-handed struggle against time and technology. As he worked on in the old manner, Japan was adopting Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (, ; 1 January 1798 – 14 April 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al'' (2005). "Kuniyoshi" in He was a member of the Utagawa school.Nussbaum, "Utagawa-ryū" in The range of Kuniyoshi's subjects included many genres: landscapes, women, Kabuki actors, cats, and mythical animals. He is known for depictions of the battles of legendary samurai heroes.Lubow, Arthur "Everything But the Robots: A Kuniyoshi Retrospective Reveals the Roots of Manga,"''New York Magazine.'' March 7, 2010. His artwork incorporated aspects of Western representation in landscape painting and caricature. Life Kuniyoshi was born on 1 January 1798, the son of a silk-dyer, Yanagiya Kichiyemon,Robinson (1961), p. 5 originally named Yoshisaburō. Apparently he assisted his father's business as a pattern designer, and some have suggested that this experience influenced his rich use of color and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunisada
Utagawa Kunisada (; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (, ), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Kuniyoshi. Evaluation of Kunisada in art history At the end of the Edo period (1603–1867), Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the three best representatives of the Japanese color woodcut in Edo (capital city of Japan, now Tokyo). However, among European and American collectors of Japanese prints, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, all three of these artists were actually regarded as rather inferior to the greats of classical ukiyo-e, and therefore as having contributed considerably to the downfall of their art. For this reason, some referred to their works as "de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived Syllabary, syllabic scripts of and . The characters have Japanese pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as , by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the general public. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characters that exist. There are nearly 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharma Name
A Dharma name is a new name acquired during both lay and monastic Buddhist initiation rituals in Mahayana Buddhism and Pabbajjā, monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism (where it is more proper to call it Dhamma or Sangha name). The name is traditionally given by a Buddhist monasticism, Buddhist monastic, and is given to newly ordained Bhikkhu, monks, Bhikkhunī, nuns and laity. Dharma names are considered aspirational, not descriptive. Most of the well-known Buddhist teachers are known to have had many different Dharma names in the course of their careers, and often each name represents a stage of their career. For example, Prince Shotoku was also known as Prince Umayado and Prince Kamitsumiya. Shinran's original name was Matsuwakamaru; he was also known as Hanen, Shakku, Zenshin, Gutoku Shinran and Kenshin Daeshi. Nichiren's original name was Zennichi and his Dharma names were Zenshobo Rencho and Rissho Daishi. Similarly, the tradition of various Dharma names was also used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
