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The Soul of the Brush: The Line’s Pull, the Color’s Spell

Price:
2,500 yen (JPY)
Edited by:
Sumida Hokusai Museum
Language(s):
Japanese
Size:
190 × 215 × 17 mm, 570 g
Pages:
232
Binding:
softcover
Release date:
20210222
ISBN:
978-4-86152-832-3 C0071

The brush, the instrument of the artist’s soul.

Say “ukiyo-e” and most people will think of woodblock prints, but in truth the genre has its roots in painting. Brought together here are some 125 paintings by sixty artists, including Iwasa Matabei (1578–1650), considered a forerunner of ukiyo-e; Hishikawa Moronobu, who originated the genre in the seventeenth- and nineteenth-century masters Kitagawa Utamaro, Toshusai Sharaku, Katsushika Hokusai, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Relive the three-hundred-year history of ukiyo-e and revel in each artist’s deftly alluring lines and magical colors—the soul of the brushwork lodged within the picture plane.

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