Legion of Honor in San Francisco exhibition:
"Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World" (through August 18)
https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/japanese-prints
#LegionOfHonor #Hokusai #Hiroshige #SanFrancisco #Japanese #FloatingWorld
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight, 1883
Color woodblock triptych print with burnishing
It shows "an encounter between famed musician Fujiwara no Yasumasa ... and a bandit. Entirely transfixed by the sound of the flute, the bandit, crouched down, is unable to strike."
This print was well known in its time: actors began imitating the pose!
#TsukiokaYoshitoshi #FujiwaraNoYasumasaPlayingTheFluteByMoonlight #Woodblock #Triptych #Japanese #Art
Color woodblock print (triptych):
"The Seven Grasses of Autumn at the Hundred Flowers Garden", attributed to Shōtei Watanabe and Yōshū Chikanobu (19th-20th century)
#TheSevenGrassesOfAutumnAtTheHundredFlowersGarden #ShōteiWatanabe #YōshūChikanobu #Garden #Triptych #Woodblock #Japanese #Art
Bonus cats
Unidentified Edo artist (active mid-19th century) - "Female Admirers Weeping Before a Large Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII" (1856)
and
Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) - "Osen Playing with a Cat Held by a Visitor to Her Tea Shop" (ca. 1768-1770)
#Cat #IchikawaDanjūrōVIII #SuzukiHarunobo #Osen #TeaShop #Edo #Woodblock #Japanese
Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)
Fox and Crescent Moon (1880)
Color woodblock print
Legion of Honor, San Francisco
https://www.famsf.org/artworks/fox-and-crescent-moon
#KobayashiKiyochika #Kiyochika #FoxAndCrescentMoon #Woodblock #Japanese #FineArts #LegionOfHonor #Museum #SanFrancisco
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