The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts(Russia)
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts provides an on-line catalogue for its collection of 18th- and 19th-century Japanese prints, which includes over 600 prints made by Japanese artists between the middle of the 18th century and the turn of the 19th century.
The on-line catalogue is based on the catalogue raisonné "Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19thCenturies" (in two volumes, 2nd edition, Moscow "Red Square" publishers, 2009) written by Beata Voronova.
The on-line catalogue allows interaction with published material, grouping works together according to genre, dynasty of artists, publisher and so on. The catalogue includes works by members of the leading dynasties of artists from the ukiyo-e school represented by the largest number of works in the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The prints have also been selected in accordance with the system of popular genres accepted in the art of ukiyo-e:theatrical prints, pictures of beauties, warriors, sumo wrestlers – and also the landscape genre, depictions of flowers and birds, e-goyomi (calendar pictures) and mitate-e (parody pictures of well-known scenes from history, literature or myth).
This on-line catalogue is distinguished by its variety and the sophisticated nature of its composition. The catalogue includes interactive reference manuals from publishers and censors. Attention has been focused in particular on the most popular series of prints and subject-based cycles devoted to popular themes such as Genji-e or Kanadehon Chūshingura
WARRIOR PICTURES
Ukiyo-e are popular pictures of the everyday life of the urban class in the Edo period. Originally the word ukiyo was used to designate one of the Buddhist categories and could be translated as "world of misery" or "world of sorrow". At the end of the 17thcentury ukiyo came to mean the modern world, the world of earthly joys and pleasure. The creation of Japanese ukiyo-e prints reached its heyday at the end of the 18thcentury. The main figures in ukiyo-e prints came to be representatives of the third estate: courtesans, actors, sumo wrestlers, characters from Japanese plays and legendary heroes.
The warrior picture genre is the one linked most closely with the literary tradition, which from medieval times had preserved colourful descriptions of legendary warriors, their lives and famous battles. Key scenes described in the numerous gunki narratives were recorded earlier on hand-painted scrolls devoted to specific warriors and also on screens bearing scenes of great battles. These scenes are also found as illustrations in illustrated books (e-hon) and later in kabuki plays. While in the 18th century actors were usually portrayed in warrior roles, in prints from the beginning of the 19th century after the introduction of censors' edicts prohibiting the depiction of actors and courtesans, portraits of warriors took precedence.
1797 - 1861
Senzaki Yagoro Noriyasu
The late Edo period (Bakumatsu). 1847-1852
Series «Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai»
Material; technique:
Japanese paper (washi); color wood-block print.
Dimensions:
365 x 255 mm
Signature:
Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga
Production centre:
Provenance:
Rumyantsevsky Muzei (Rumyantsev Museum) (Moscow)
Inv.:
А-34331
Active c. 1870/1880
Troops Charging through the Ujigawa River
Triptych
Meiji period. 1884
Material; technique:
Japanese paper (washi); color wood-block print.
Format:
Dimensions:
356 x 730 mm
Signature:
Ojyu Toyonobu
Production centre:
Publisher:
Provenance:
Rumyantsevsky Muzei (Rumyantsev Museum) (Moscow), at the PMFA since 1924
Exhibitions:
My Collection The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts【the same】
Utagawa Toyonobu (Japanese, died 1886), The Competition to be First at Uji River, 1884, triptych; color woodblock print on paper
Utagawa Toyonobu (歌川豊信)
Title
Troops Charging through the Ujigawa River
Japanese yen ￥890,000 (tax not included)
Russia pushkin museum【the same】
(Wood block, a genuine Antique 1884 year)
The Portland Art Museum【the same】
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For your reference
Boston Museum The Battle of Uji river
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-battle-of-the-uji-river-ujikawa-472060
Boston Museum The Battle of Uji river
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-battle-of-the-uji-river-ujikawa-kassen-no-zu-496325
British Museum The Battle of Uji river.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
http://www.japaneseprints.ru/?lang=en
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts provides an on-line catalogue for its collection of 18th- and 19th-century Japanese prints, which includes over 600 prints made by Japanese artists between the middle of the 18th century and the turn of the 19th century.
The on-line catalogue is based on the catalogue raisonné "Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19thCenturies" (in two volumes, 2nd edition, Moscow "Red Square" publishers, 2009) written by Beata Voronova.
The on-line catalogue allows interaction with published material, grouping works together according to genre, dynasty of artists, publisher and so on. The catalogue includes works by members of the leading dynasties of artists from the ukiyo-e school represented by the largest number of works in the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The prints have also been selected in accordance with the system of popular genres accepted in the art of ukiyo-e:theatrical prints, pictures of beauties, warriors, sumo wrestlers – and also the landscape genre, depictions of flowers and birds, e-goyomi (calendar pictures) and mitate-e (parody pictures of well-known scenes from history, literature or myth).
This on-line catalogue is distinguished by its variety and the sophisticated nature of its composition. The catalogue includes interactive reference manuals from publishers and censors. Attention has been focused in particular on the most popular series of prints and subject-based cycles devoted to popular themes such as Genji-e or Kanadehon Chūshingura.
The play was based on real events, which took place in 1703. The story of the revenge wrought by the 47 samurai served as the material for many kabuki plays, but the most popular of all was the play "Kanadehon Chūshingura", written in 1748 by the playwrights Takeda Izumo, Namiki Senryū and Miyoshi Shōraku.
Given that during the Edo period (1603-1867) in Japan it was strictly forbidden to depict historical events of the recent past, the action of the play was transposed to the 14thcentury (the Kamakura period) and the names of all the famous heroes were altered slightly, but sounded sufficiently similar to the original ones for the public to be able to recognize them without any difficulty.
The play was illustrated on several occasions by ukiyo-e prints created by many leading artists such as Kitigawa Utamaro, Utagawa Toyokuni, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige. Each artist interpreted the theme in his own style, paying attention to the theatrical action, to the main subject and to the parodying of famous scenes or emphasizing the background landscapes
UTAGAWA Kuniyoshi / 歌川国芳
Pseudonym:
Chōōrō, Ichiyūsai, Ryūen
Dynasty:
Life dates:
1797 - 1861
Period:
The late Edo period (Bakumatsu)
Place:
Edo (Tokyo)Ukiyo-e painter, printmaker. Worked in Edo. Trained first to the family craft or dyer, then, probably, a pupil of Katsukawa Shun`en. Then was accepted by Utagawa Toyokuni and used go of Chōōrō, Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi. Studied Tosa, Kano and Maruyama painting, influenced by Utagawa Kuninao. Then founded his own style. Famous for his prints of actors and animals, also specialized in illustrations of heroic episodes in Japanese history. Occasionaly, influenced by European models.
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