El dinamismo caracteriza los grabados de Kuniyoshi, los tradicionales trípticos cuyas escenas se desarrollan en torno a un tema central, ampliando el repertorio existente en las escuelas de grabado y dando vida a numerosas hazañas ...
"Kuniyoshi: The Faithful Samurai" is a pioneering publication dealing with the famous Kuniyoshi series of the 47 masterless samurai ("r'nin").
This dazzling volume by Matthi Forrer, one of the leading experts on ukiyoe, traces Kuniyoshi's entire career, looking at the major aspects of his ouevre."--Page 4 of cover.
"Enjoying a career spanning almost fifty years, from the 1810s to his death in 1861, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)was instrumental in establishing warrior prints as one of the major genres in the history of Japanes woodblock prints (ukiyo ...
This handsome volume explores the life and work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), one of Japan's greatest print artists.
His fame is tied to the series of polychrome xylographs that illustrate the 108 heroes from the novel Suikoden (Brigands) , which became a bestseller in China and Japan in the late 1700s, promoting the imagery of a band of brigands who ...