Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Military Brilliance for the Eight Views: Evening Bell at Todaiji (detail), 1852
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Heroic Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji: Lady of the Bridge, ca. 1843
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A young woman sits at a table, angled left, her posture heavy with thought. Her skin is rendered in pale, chalky tones against a deep green, softly mottled background. She wears a fitted white short-sleeved top. Over her hair is a rust-red headscarf that frames her face under a pointed overhang with a dark floral ornament and ties under her chin. Her eyebrows knit faintly. Her eyes look down and away rather than meeting ours. One hand rests across her lap while the other lifts toward her mouth, holding a slender white cigarette between her fingers. In the foreground, a small stemmed wine glass with a dark amber drink sits on the table, its rim catching a little light. The table edge cuts diagonally across the lower frame, creating a quiet distance between us and the woman, as if we’ve arrived mid-thought. Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (國吉康雄) builds tension through restraint via a limited palette, softened edges, and a face partly shadowed, making emotion feel present but not fully readable. The title “Waiting” turns the scene into time made visible like an in-between moment where the body holds what the voice doesn’t say. The cigarette and drink could be small rituals of endurance or perhaps individuality, while the headscarf is both protective and enclosing so it intensifies the sense of interiority. Painted in 1938, the work also sits in a world darkening with political violence and uncertainty. Kuniyoshi’s figurative language often channels that unease through intimate, everyday subjects rather than grand events. The result is a portrait of suspended agency that’s not passive, but poised showing someone thinking, bracing, and staying with her own mind until whatever comes next finally arrives.
待つ (Waiting) by 國吉康雄 / Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Japanese American) - Oil on canvas / 1938 - National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan) #WomenInArt #MOMAT #YasuoKuniyoshi #國吉康雄 #Kuniyoshi #東京国立近代美術館 #ModernArt #art #ArtText #JapaneseArt #JapaneseArtist #PortraitofaWoman #NationalMuseumOfModernArtTokyo
Nouvelle sérigraphie dispo en vente sur mon site : Ryûjin (reproduction d'une estampe d'Utagawa Kuniyoshi)
Linogravure et impression faite à la main sur presse à vis à l'ancienne.
#linogravure #carvingwork #serigraphie #kuniyoshi
Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre T-Shirt Utagawa Kuniyoshi Art #skeleton #art #kuniyoshi #witch
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Young Woman Making a Snowman, ca. 1845
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Nothing cheers up a drab January day like a new book, which I purchased at New Year. Almost two centuries on, the genius of Utagawa Kuniyoshi is as undiminished and inspirational as ever.
#ukiyo-e #Kuniyoshi #WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn
Kuniyoshi, de l’estampe au Pixel
(...) Le « punk » de l’estampe et de l’Edo « glisse la satire derrière l’héroïsme, la critique sous l’humour, peuple ses images de mondes fantastiques. (...)
@lapiscine.lab rue Jean-Jaurès à #Brest #kuniyoshi
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This design belongs to a series pairing fashionable figures with “celebrated treasures” of Japan’s coasts, mixing tourism, parody, and everyday pleasures. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳), famed for heroic warriors and mischievous cats, working with his pupil Utagawa Yoshitori (歌川芳とり) echo the woman’s yelp with the fisherman’s struggle seen in the inset art: the cat’s claws and octopus’s suckers become parallel jokes about grasping, entangling, and possibly the hazards of desire. A half-length young Japanese woman in a striped blue kimono patterned with tiny, crest-like waves tilts gently left against a soft grey ground. Her pale face and delicate features are framed by a glossy black coiffure pinned with gold and coral ornaments in her hair. In her arms a plump cream-colored cat wearing a red patterned collar wriggles and digs in its claws, muzzle lifted toward the woman's chin as she twists slightly, caught in the instant of sharp surprise that matches the title’s cry, “Ouch!” Above, a rectangular inset opens like a distant window onto blue sea and rocky coast, where a fisherman in a small boat is beset by a huge octopus, tentacles flailing against the waves. Red cartouches balance the composition, linking text, place, and playful drama. The woman is an idealized urban beauty rather than a portrait, inviting us to read ourselves into the scene. Her oversized pet cat embodies both cherished companion and unruly spirit. Created late in Kuniyoshi’s career, when censorship pushed artists toward witty allusion, the print showcases his inventive color, humane humor, and affection for animals while celebrating regional specialties, modern travel, and ukiyo-e's ( 浮世 aka the floating world) shared visual imagination.
おお,いたい (Ouch! That hurts!) by 歌川国芳 / Utagawa Kuniyoshi with 歌川芳とり / Utagawa Yoshitori (Japanese) - Color woodblock print / 1852 - British Museum (London, UK) #WomenInArt #UtagawaKuniyoshi #Kuniyoshi #浮世絵 #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt #art #WoodblockPrint #猫 #CatArt #歌川芳とり #BlueskyArt #歌川国芳 #BritishMuseum
What’s up? This hurt. It will continue to hurt. This is the way.
#art #tattoo #outline #japanese #traditional #kuniyoshi #colinmcclain #time&tide #snake #wip #backpiece
Utagawa #Kuniyoshi (歌川國芳, 1797– 1861),「武勇見立十二支 鬼童丸 丑」Ox (Ushi): Kidōmaru, from the series Heroes Representing the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyū mitate jūnishi), around 1842. #ukiyoe
Utagawa #Kuniyoshi (歌川國芳, 1797– 1861),「武勇見立十二支 鬼童丸 丑」Ox (Ushi): Kidōmaru, from the series Heroes Representing the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyū mitate jūnishi), around 1842.
#ukiyoe
Sake no zashiki (Drinking party), by Utagawa #Kuniyoshi, 19th century. #ukiyoe
Sake no zashiki (Drinking party), by Utagawa #Kuniyoshi, 19th century.
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#Kuniyoshi Utagawa: Kotenrai Ryioshin loading a cannon. #ukiyoe
#Kuniyoshi Utagawa: Kotenrai Ryioshin loading a cannon.
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#Kuniyoshi Utagawa: Pilgrims in the #waterfall. #ukiyoe
#Kuniyoshi Utagawa: Pilgrims in the #waterfall.
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Poem: crushed by the truth living a liar's lie with trust as your camouflage truth is the coming gale inspired by & paired with a portion of an image ©ilinkcs (2025) of an artwork by Utagawa Kuniyoshi “Taira Koremochi spies the reflection of a female demon” It’s a mythological woodprint from Japanese folklore in the traditional Japanese woodblock print style of the Ukiyo-e movement. I love the vivid colors & imagery. Taira Koremochi stares intensely into a bowl of sake which is reflecting back the face of a female demon. It shows the instant he realizes the reflection is coming from the woman he is with. The reflection reveals the truth, he is starting to draw his sword. Standing behind him, she is dressed in an elaborate kimono with ornate designs, subtly mirroring her true nature. In turn his clothing also has intricate patterns and rich colors & this is the counterpoint to hers, creating dramatic tension. The whole artwork is a compelling tableau that combines mythology, artistry, and cultural symbolism. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taira_Koremochi_spies_the_reflection_of_a_female_demon.jpg
crushed by the truth
Inspired by Utagawa #Kuniyoshi “Taira #Koremochi spies the reflection of a female #demon”
The vice-governor of Dewa sees his companion’s face reflected back as a #demon in a bowl of sake - he prepares to strike.
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#poetry #poem #haiku #japan #mythology
#Kuniyoshi Utagawa: Self-portrait of the Shunga album. #ukiyoe
#Kuniyoshi Utagawa: Self-portrait of the Shunga album.
#ukiyoe
Kiyo-hime, from the series Mirror of Warriors of Our Country, by Utagawa #Kuniyoshi, 1855. #ukiyoe
Kiyo-hime, from the series Mirror of Warriors of Our Country, by Utagawa #Kuniyoshi, 1855.
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Black #carp by Utagawa #Kuniyoshi, ca. 1837. #ukiyoe
Black #carp by Utagawa #Kuniyoshi, ca. 1837.
#ukiyoe
#Kuniyoshi Utagawa: Vesper bell at Todai-ji. #ukiyoe
#Kuniyoshi Utagawa: Vesper bell at Todai-ji.
#ukiyoe
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駕籠真太郎
Artist .. shintarokago1969
My Ukiyo-e collection.
Kuniyoshi
Kiso Kaido 69th Station: Oiwake
#kuniyoshi #浮世絵 #国芳
Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s playful experiments across multiple paintings of “modern” bathers (aka swimmers) demonstrate the artist’s sly sense of humor and were born from summers at a coastal art colony in Ogunquit, Maine. We see a young curvaceous woman in a brown 1920s-style one-piece swimsuit, standing on a brown rock. The woman has large almond eyes, long straight black hair, and a bit of belly. She is prominently holding a cigarette in her right hand with her left hand behind her head. Her right leg is bent at the knee, and her left leg is straight as if she is surfing or simply posing for the artist. The background is a green and dark tone expanse under a blue sky and white clouds. Solid forms, a flattened sense of space, and a dark palette mark this work as belonging to Kuniyoshi’s early career. The tight swimsuit and small cigarette refer to newly relaxed norms of seaside behavior. For some, the boldly un-self-conscious bather next to a minuscule clamshell hints at famous Italian Renaissance works such as Sandro Botticelli’s 1486 “Birth of Venus.” Born in Okayama, Japan in 1889, Kuniyoshi immigrated to the United States in 1906 at 17, reportedly to avoid having to join the Japanese military. After a brief stay in Seattle and three years in Los Angeles, Kuniyoshi eventually moved to New York City, where he studied with American artists Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Although viewed as an immigrant, Kuniyoshi was very patriotic and identified himself as an American. He never received his citizenship due to exclusionary U.S. immigration laws. His first wife, American artist Katherine Schmidt, actually lost her American citizenship in 1919 due to her relationship with Kuniyoshi. They divorced in 1932 and a few years later he married American dancer and actress Sara Mazo. Despite being denied citizenship, during World War II, Kuniyoshi demonstrated his loyalty and patriotism for the United States as an anti-Japanese propaganda artist.
“Bather with Cigarette” by Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Japanese-American) - Oil on canvas / 1924 - Dallas Museum of Art (Texas) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #OilPainting #womensart #YasuoKuniyoshi #Kuniyoshi #surfer #DallasMuseumofArt #kuniyoshi #smoking #国吉康雄 #JapaneseAmericanArtist #JapaneseAmericanArt #humor
Ukiyo-e woodblock triptych by Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). Kuniyoshi was known for his depictions of historical and mythical scenes, and combined both in portraying the tenth-century princess Takiyasha summoning a skeleton spectre to frighten Oya no Mitsukuni. In the image, the princess recites a spell written on a handscroll, summoning a giant skeleton. It rears out of a black void, crashing its way through the tattered palace blinds with its bony fingers to menace Mitsukuni and his companion. In Japan, the artwork is exposed in the city of Kurashiki, in the UKIYO-E museum. A copy of the print is housed in the Honolulu Museum of Art in the United States, having been donated by its previous owner, Victor S. K. Houston, in 1941. The historical Princess Takiyasha was the daughter of the provincial warlord Taira no Masakado of Sōma, who tried to set up an "Eastern Court" in Shimōsa Province in competition with the emperor in Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). That rebellion was put down in the year 939 and he was defeated, then decapitated. After his death, Princess Takiyasha continued living in the ruined shōen, or rural manor-house, of the Sōma clan, Masakado's former residence. This print shows a mythical episode in which the emperor's official, Mitsukuni, comes to search for surviving insurrectionary conspirators.
Day 7
Choose 20 pieces of visual art that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. • #BlueskyArt #VisualArts
Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre or Mitsukuni Defying the Skeleton Spectre Invoked
by Princess Takiyasha
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The tale of the 47 Ronin is rooted in historical events from 1703 in medieval Japan. Forty-seven loyal samurai found themselves masterless (ronin) after their lord was coerced into an unjustified suicide. Vowing to avenge their master's death, these samurai spent two years preparing for their quest for retribution. Under the cover of a winter's night, 46 of the masterless samurai (one had passed away during the preparations) raided Lord Kira Kozunosuke's mansion, beheading him to avenge their lord. Subsequently, the 46 samurai were captured, tried, and sentenced to death. Despite public sympathy for their cause, the ruling shogun Tsunayoshi permitted the 46 samurai to perform seppuku, the honorable samurai ritual of self-disembowelment, as a form of execution. Each print in this series depicts one of the 47 Ronin, all with that incredible black and white outer kimono. In this print, a master archer with bow in hand, lines up his shot before releasing the arrow. Brows furrowed in concentration.
Here, this warrior tightens the bracers at his wrists using his mouth to hold one end of the tie. Wind in his hair and fluttering his clothing as his sword waits planted tip down into the ground near him.
Day 3
Choose 20 pieces of visual art that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. • #BlueskyArt #VisualArts
#SeichuGishiDen • #Kuniyoshi
"Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai" August 1847 - January 1848
Ukiyo-e print series.
#botd (well, no actual date of birth is available but he was born in March of 1919) the legendary Takashi Minamimura!
Those familiar with master Utagawa Kuniyoshi's work might recognize that large skeleton from one of his prints.
#takashiminamimura #skeleton #kaiju #japaneseartist #kuniyoshi
《Takiyasha la sorcière et le fantôme du squelette》 d'Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), un des chefs-d'œuvre de la fondation al Thani @expo "La couleur parle toutes les langues" à l'hôtel de la Marine, à Paris.
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