Prints from the tokyo studios of david bull.
Ukiyo woodblock prints.
Travel scenes and landscapes.
Along with paintings prints produced from the 17th century through the 19th century captured the spirit of ukyio e a genre that presented pictures of the floating world to the public.
Literally meaning pictures of the floating world ukiyo e refers to a style of japanese woodblock print and painting from the edo period depicting famous theater actors beautiful courtesans city life travel in romantic landscapes and erotic scenes.
And erotica the term ukiyo e translates as picture s of the floating world.
Japanese woodblock print search.
Traditional japanese wood block prints inspired by video games and pop culture.
Kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers.
Our japanese woodblock print collections contain over 25 000 prints and related paintings drawings and books covering a wide range of common ukiyo e themes including beauties and actors landscapes heroic and folk tales and erotica.
Designs by jed henry.
In our online gallery you will find a very selective choices of japanese woodblock prints for sale at fair market prices.
Here we explore these japanese woodblock prints.
Come check at our large selection of prints from kawase hasui ando hiroshige katsushika hokusai or utamaro to name a few.
This website is both an online gallery of japanese woodblock prints ukiyo e and shin hanga as well as a library of research and reference articles about japanese woodblocks publishers artists printmaking techniques and advice for collectors.
1640 used wood stamps in the early seventeenth century to print designs on paper and silk.
Below is an example print click to see it in action.
Ukiyo e search provides an incredible resource.
Woodblock prints were initially used as early as the eighth century in japan to disseminate texts especially buddhist scriptures the designer and painter tawaraya sÅtatsu died ca.
Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties.
It features the great masters of the genre such as suzuki harunobu 1725 70 utagawa hiroshige 1797 1858 katsushika hokusai 1760 1849 and.
The floating world as the pleasure districts of edo modern day tokyo were called describes the sensory pleasures of urban life but.
Scenes from history and folk tales.
The ability to both search for japanese woodblock prints by simply taking a picture of an existing print and the ability to see similar prints across multiple collections of prints.
Ukiyo e a form of japanese print art that translates as pictures of the floating world captured the exciting urban popular culture of the edo period 1603 1868 promoting its beauty fashions and heroes.
Celebrated for their one of a kind process and distinctive aesthetic woodblock prints have become a widely recognized and iconic form of japanese art.