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Masterpiece
Just came across this in my daily browsing and thought it was pretty cool, hopefully some of you might get a kick out of it. The Library of Congress has just released over 2,500 Japanese prints dating from to the 1600's to 1900's.
I haven't gone through it all yet but from what I see it's excellent, may even be worth printing a few out.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/about-this-collection/
The Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 woodblock prints and drawings by Japanese artists of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. The Library of Congress appreciates the financial support provided by Nicihibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation) to scan 1,100 of the Ukiyo-e prints.
A modern version of the Tale of Genji in snow scenes. Toyokuni Utagawa, artist, 1853.
Subjects frequently depicted in the prints include:
The Library acquired its Japanese woodblock print holdings from a host of different donors and collectors including Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, President William Howard Taft, Crosby Stuart Noyes, and Emily Crane Chadbourne.
Many schools, traditions, and genres are represented, notably surimono, privately distributed prints combining pictures and poetry, and prints from the Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese wars. However, the primary strengths of the collection are the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e and Yokohama-e.
Browse the collection here. https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/
It even has a bonsai section although there are only 6 prints in this part.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/?fa=subject:bonsai
If anyone finds any more in other sections feel free to link them here.
Enjoy.
I haven't gone through it all yet but from what I see it's excellent, may even be worth printing a few out.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/about-this-collection/
The Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 woodblock prints and drawings by Japanese artists of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. The Library of Congress appreciates the financial support provided by Nicihibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation) to scan 1,100 of the Ukiyo-e prints.
A modern version of the Tale of Genji in snow scenes. Toyokuni Utagawa, artist, 1853.
Subjects frequently depicted in the prints include:
- actors [view examples]
- women [view examples]
- landscapes [ view examples]
- scenes from Japanese literature [view examples]
- daily life [view examples]
- views of Western foreigners [view examples].
The Library acquired its Japanese woodblock print holdings from a host of different donors and collectors including Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, President William Howard Taft, Crosby Stuart Noyes, and Emily Crane Chadbourne.
Many schools, traditions, and genres are represented, notably surimono, privately distributed prints combining pictures and poetry, and prints from the Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese wars. However, the primary strengths of the collection are the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e and Yokohama-e.
Browse the collection here. https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/
It even has a bonsai section although there are only 6 prints in this part.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/?fa=subject:bonsai
If anyone finds any more in other sections feel free to link them here.
Enjoy.
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