Hokusai Too Hiroshige: Dandy Japanese Prints

Below is an Asian Art Museum video nearly Great Japanese Prints past times ukiyo-e printmakers Hokusai together with Hiroshige


Ejiri inward the Suruga province (1832) by Katsushika Hokusai
ane of the prints seen inward the video
I constitute it on the ArtBabble website together with hence located it on Youtube - which offers to a greater extent than options re viewing.



This is the Video which was created to promote the Hokusai together with Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts exhibition that took house at the Asian Art Museum from September 26 - Dec 6, 1998.  It was filmed at the museum's onetime place inward Golden Gate Park.

The video offers an overview of the context for the ukiyo-e together with hence provides ii profiles of the function of Hokusai together with Hiroshige.

You tin also view it inward iTunes.  This is the description of the video on iTunes.
The social club of Japan's Edo stream (1615-1867) embraced a release of intriguing contradictions. It was a fourth dimension of unprecedented stability, when Japan, previously a mosaic of violently warring feudal states, in conclusion achieved unity every bit a nation. Though strictly stratified inward 4 hereditary classes — nobles, farmers, artisans, together with merchants — Edo social club withal produced a vigorous middle plane of enterprising commoners. By the 1800s, commoners enjoyed the numerous amenities of Edo (Tokyo), the world's largest city. They launched businesses, perfected crafts, gained leisure fourth dimension together with literacy, traveled a organisation of rubber roads, together with enjoyed fine art together with poetry. While impress makers initially illustrated the denizens of the pleasance quarters, or Ukiyo-e ("floating world"), the impress also became an acceptable together with affordable medium for the amount make of aspect mutual to Japanese art, including landscape, flowers together with birds, together with genre scenes. The most of import together with prolific were the 19th-century artists Katsushika Hokusai together with Utagawa Hiroshige, whose prints constitute the most recognizable images of Japanese fine art throughout the world. This exhibition was organized past times the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco together with the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Description on iTunes
The James A. Michener Collection
Most of us know James Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Michener as a famous novelist.  However he was also really interested inward Japanese prints together with he became a bully collector together with connoisseur of Japanese prints, together with an of import patron of the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

His entire collection of Japanese woodblock prints (nearly 5,400) - ranging from 17th century to belatedly 20th century Japanese prints - was donated to the Honolulu Academy of Arts between 1959 together with 1991.  Today, that donation accounts for nearly one-half of the entire collection of to a greater extent than than 10,000 Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

Webpage for the Japanese Wood Block impress Collection of the Honolulu Museum
More resources nearly Japanese Art

Other educational resources nearly Japanese Art provided past times the Asian Art Museum include:
I've been studying Japanese Art for around fourth dimension - e'er since I discovered its influence on western fine art inward the nineteenth century.  These are links to the resources websites I created:

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