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Fireflies by Shuho Yamagata（山川秀峰）
http://atelierrusses.jugem.jp/?month=200901
http://www.sarugallery.com/japanese_woodblock_prints_ukiyoe/artists/shuho_yamakawa.html
Yamakawa Shûhô is known as a painter as well as a printmaker. He was born in Kyoto, and he was one of the many pupils of Kaburagi Kiyokata (who also taught Itô Shinsui). Like Shinsui he also worked as an illustrator in the 1930s. In this period a relatively small number of woodblock prints were published by Watanabe and Bijutsu-sha.
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Yokai - Japanese Monsters
In the Edo period of sophisticated popular culture (1603-1868), much attention was devoted to Japan’s rich variety of traditional monsters and apparitions, known as yokai. The above yokai are from a work titled Hyakkai Zukan in 1737 by Sawaki Suushi, a relatively unknown artist who studied under master painter Hanabusa Itcho (1702-1772). Hyakkai Zukan’s colorful depictions of Japan’s most notorious creatures inspired and copied by yokai artists for generations.
- Ushi-oni (“cow devil”) is a malevolent sea monster with the head of a bull and the body of a giant spider or crab. It is most often encountered in the coastal waters where it is feared for its vicious attacks on fishermen.
- Mikoshi-nyudo is a large, cross-eyed mendicant encountered on mountain passes or on lonely roads at night. He grows taller when you look up at him — and the higher you look, the taller he grows. Look up for too long and you will die, but say “mikoshita” (“I see higher”) and he disappears.
- Ouni is a mountain hag with a mouth stretching from ear to ear and a thick coat of long, black hair covering her entire body. She can place raw hemp fiber into her mouth and pull out finished yarn.
- Nure-onna (“wet woman”) is a fast-swimming amphibious creature with the head of a human female and the body of a gigantic snake. She carries a small child, which she uses to attract potential victims. When a well-intentioned person offers to hold the baby, the child attaches itself to the victim’s hands and grows heavy, making it nearly impossible to flee. She uses her long, powerful tongue to suck all the blood from her victim’s body.
- Uwan is a disembodied voice that inhabits old, abandoned temples and homes. When a person enters a haunted building, the formless spirit belts out an ear-piercing “Uwan!” (hence the name).
- Kami-kiri (“hair-cutter”) are ghostly spirits known for sneaking up on people and cutting all their hair off when they are unknowingly engaged to marry another yokai posing as a human. These hair-cutting attacks are intended to delay or prevent weddings between humans and otherworldly beings, which are typically doomed to failure.
(via wa-goth)
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(Source: uetoayascans, via wa-goth)
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Streetwalker
Hokusai Katsushika（葛飾北斎）
http://akumamoto.web.fc2.com/fc5/page038.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October 31, 1760 (exact date questionable) – May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period…….In the West, the artist may be known for his woodblock print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
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Hokusai Katsushika（葛飾北斎）
http://akumamoto.web.fc2.com/fc5/page038.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October 31, 1760 (exact date questionable) – May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period…….In the West, the artist may be known for his woodblock print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
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Harunobu Suzuki （鈴木春信）
http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2127365284873157501/2127372018873889303
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Harunobu
(鈴木 春信?, 1725? – July 7, 1770) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of subjects, from classical poems to contemporary beauties. Like many artists of his day, Harunobu also produced a number of shunga, or erotic images. During his lifetime and shortly afterwards, many artists imitated his style. A few, such as Harushige, even boasted of their ability to forge the work of the great master. Much about Harunobu’s life is unknown.
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流しびな（Nagashi-bina）
Nagashi-bina (paper dolls floated downriver) is an event which is said to be the origin of the Dolls’ Festival on 3rd of March in Japan.
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Body of a courtesan in nine stages of decomposition / Kobayashi Eitaku
九相図 小林永濯 1870年代
“九相図の場面は作品ごとに異なり、九相観を説いている経典でも一定ではない。” wiki-九相図
※図のタイトルはこちらを参考にした。
