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Utagawa Yoshitora

Eiyu Osana Hyakuin (A hundred Heroes in their Childhood)
Eiyu Osana Hyakuin (A hundred Heroes in their Childhood)

Eiyu Osana Hyakuin (A hundred Heroes in their Childhood)

By Utagawa Yoshitora

Located in Roma, IT

Including 50+1 original illustrations, 39 of which by Yoshitora and 11 of which by Yoshitsuna. Author : Shotei Kinsui Illustrator : Utagawa Yoshitora, Utagawa Yoshitsuna Cover on b...

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1850s Modern More Art

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Foreign Soldiers from Five Countries at the Port of Yokohama
Foreign Soldiers from Five Countries at the Port of Yokohama

Foreign Soldiers from Five Countries at the Port of Yokohama

By Utagawa Yoshitora

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川 芳虎) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880.

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Mid-19th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

WO RO SI IA ZIN  Russian Soldier with His Family
WO RO SI IA ZIN  Russian Soldier with His Family

WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family

Located in Fairlawn, OH

His followers in the Utagawa school, Utagawa Yoshitsuya (1822-66), Utagawa Yoshitora (ca. 1850s-70s), and Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904) and Utagawa Yoshifuji (1828-87) all worked in w...

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1860s Other Art Style Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Battle of Dan-no-ura in Yashima, Nagato Province in the First Year .....
The Battle of Dan-no-ura in Yashima, Nagato Province in the First Year .....

The Battle of Dan-no-ura in Yashima, Nagato Province in the First Year .....

By Utagawa Yoshitora

Located in Middletown, NY

The Battle of Dan-no-ura in Yashima, Nagato Province in the First Year of the Bunji Era (1185) Tokyo c. 1830 Woodblock print (nishiki-e) with ink and hand-coloring in watercolor on ...

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Early 19th Century Edo Figurative Prints

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Yoshitora Utagawa, Heike, Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Ukiyo-e, Edo Period
Yoshitora Utagawa, Heike, Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Ukiyo-e, Edo Period

Yoshitora Utagawa, Heike, Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Ukiyo-e, Edo Period

By Utagawa Yoshitora

Located in London, GB

Artist: Yoshitora Utagawa (ac. 1830-1880) Title: The Genpei War Publisher: Sanoya Kihei Date: c. 1846-1848 Dimensions: (L) 25.1 x 37.1 (C) 25.5 x 37.2 (R) 25.6 x 37.1 cm Condition: ...

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Yoshitora, Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Samurai, Warrior, Ukiyo-e, Horse
Yoshitora, Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Samurai, Warrior, Ukiyo-e, Horse

Yoshitora, Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Samurai, Warrior, Ukiyo-e, Horse

By Utagawa Yoshitora

Located in London, GB

Artist: Yoshitora Utagawa (act. 1850–80) Title: Kato Kiyomasa and Honda Tadakatsu Publisher: Kiya Sojiro Date: 1866 Condition report: Some pinholes.

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Japanese Pilgri - Original Woodcut Print by Utagawa Yoshitora - mid 19th Century
Japanese Pilgri - Original Woodcut Print by Utagawa Yoshitora - mid 19th Century

Japanese Pilgri - Original Woodcut Print by Utagawa Yoshitora - mid 19th Century

By Utagawa Yoshitora

Located in Roma, IT

In excellent conditions, except for the usual yellowing of the paper, including a red wooden frame, this modern artwork could give to your furniture a sophisticated touch! Utagawa Y...

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1850s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

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Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active c. 1840-1880) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1840 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo), but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. However, he was the oldest pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreigners (Yokohama-e). He may not have seen any of the foreign scenes he depicted. Yoshitora was prolific: he produced over 60 print series and illustrated over 100 books. In 1849 he produced an irreverent print called Dōke musha: Miyo no wakamochi ("Funny Warriors—Our Ruler's New Year's Rice Cakes"), which depicts Oda Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi making mochi rice cakes for the shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. A poem by Sawaya Kōkichi accompanies it, reading "Kimi ga yo wo tsuki katametari haru no mochi" ("Tamping down the reign firm and solid like spring rice cakes"). Censors interpreted the print as a criticism of authority and had Yoshitora manacled for fifty days. Soon after Yoshitora was expelled from Kuniyoshi's studio, possibly due to the print, but he continued to produce illustrations prolifically. From the 1860s Yoshitora produced Yokohama-e pictures of foreigners amid rapid modernization that came to Japan after the country was opened to trade. He collaborated on a number of landscape series, and in the Meiji period that began in 1868 he also worked in newspapers. The last of his known works appeared in 1882.

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Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.

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