Japanese Woodblock Bird Prints: An Album of Japanese Woodblock Prints - Brossura

Kashu, Namata

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486470504 ISBN 13: 9780486470504

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2011

Riassunto

In the 1880s, an economic boom in Japan encouraged a renaissance of traditional color woodblock painting. During this prosperous period, a well-born painter named Numata Kashû created A Picture Book of Birds. Kashû's three-volume series blended the contemporary interest in woodblock prints with East Asia's centuries-old fascination with artistic depictions of birds and flowers. His colorful books received a lavish production from a Tokyo printer that went out of business soon afterward, rendering the volumes instant rarities. Kashû's woodblock prints were so popular that dealers carved up available books in order to sell the images individually, making complete versions even harder to find.
A collector's delight, this exquisite edition reprints a rare 1930s facsimile of Kashû's works. Its vivid gallery of high-quality illustrations features 150 images of birds that are realistic as well as charmingly traditional. Most include the species' names in kanji as well as in English translations. Lovers of fine art — and of Japanese art in particular — will treasure this handsome volume, as will naturalists and rare book enthusiasts.

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Contenuti:

Nightingale or Bush Warbler and Peach Blossoms Eagle and Blue Sea Brown-eared Bulbul and Japanese Winterberry Blue Rock Thrush and Japanese Rose Snipe and Tufted Vetch Falcated Teal and Reeds Eared Owl and Fir Tree Flycatcher and Rose Narcissus Flycatcher and White Chrysanthemum Flycatcher Common Gallinule and Water Lily Golden Pheasant and Plum Starling and Great Trumpet Flower Reed Warbler and Young Reeds Gray Starling and Tree Lotus Gray-capped Greenfinch and Shepherd’s Purse Finch and Burning Bush Jay and Magnolia Winter Wren and Narcissus Skylark and Young Barley Plant Lark and Violets Swallow Black Kite on an Old Tree Snipe and Day Flower Nightingale, or Bush Warbler Mynah Birds Northern Pintail Duck and Overhanging Cliff Canary and White Peach Blossoms Japanese Mallard and Willow Roosting Crows Beneath a Crescent Moon and Cypress Crow in the Marshes and Valley Stream Quail and Bell Flower or Gentian Goose and Spring Grass Duck and Bamboo in Snow Japanese Marsh Tit Tufted Duck and Reed Flowers Pekin Robin and Winter Plum Blossom Sparrow Red-crowned Crane and Bamboo Demoiselle Crane and Reed White-naped Crane and Hosta Black Crane and Distant Mountain Kingfisher and Japanese Rice Fish Crane and Pine Kingfisher and Bird Cherry Crossbill Longtail Rose Finch and Maple Magpie and Waterfall Japanese White-eye and Katsura Flowers Japanese Grosbeak and Silk Tree Blossoms White-fronted Goose Yellow-Throated Bunting Meadow Bunting and Forsythia Water Rail and Wild Rose Society Finch and Rice Plant Ruddy Crake and Pink Peacock and Peony Red-eyed Dove and Oak Eurasian Tree Creeper and Sword Beans Dove and Asian Flatsedge Grass Sparrow and Yellow Plum Blossom Eurasian Wryneck Nuthatch and Cypress Parrot and Crabapple Great Spotted Woodpecker Japanese Green Woodpecker and Old Tree Petrel Rhinoceros Auklet Magpie and White Magnolia Japanese Yellow Bunting and Tampala; Joseph’s Coat (Amaranthus tricolor) Albatross Seagull or Northern Fulmar Chinese Bulbul and Plum Blossoms Chicks and Snake-gourd Plant Silkie Chicken Japanese Wagtail Rose Finch Cuckoo Osprey Thrush Dusky Thrush Owl and Cherry Blossoms European Robin Bohemian Waxwing and Witch Hazel Pheasant Cattle Egret Copper Pheasant Blue Heron Heron Japanese Night Heron and White Heron/Egret Wagtail and Red Lotus Flowers Swan Black Brant Goose Melodious Laughing Thrush and Pear Blossoms Red Parakeet Red-breasted Parakeet and St. John’s Wort Brambling Bird Domestic Duck and Ducklings Hawfinch and Begonia Cormorant Siberian Rubythroat and Wild Chrysanthemum Tamagawa Plover Mandarin Ducks and Job’s Tears Long-tailed Fowl and Pomegranate Bulbul Shrike and Bush Clover Hawk

Product Description:

Numata Kashu's wonderfully lifelike images of birds and flowers first appeared in a three-volume, 1883 portfolio. His woodblock prints were so popular that dealers sold them individually, destroying most complete sets. A collector's delight, this exquisite edition reprints a 1930s facsimile, alive with 150 color illustrations of the highest quality.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0486470504
• ISBN 13: 9780486470504
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 146