Japanese Woodblock prints

Too expensive for me, but these are for sale on ebay. Over $100

The other one. They are from the 50's

very pretty, especially for those of us without bloomers in the house.

I saw those too, but too expensive for me too. Have the seen the fabric on www.equilter.com? I've bought some to make myself a dress, it is really beautiful..

http://www.equilter.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=75450&sid=31U9Hz1VU7fd30v-38106372408.a8

That fabric is wonderful! What a nice kimono-houserobe it would make.

Does the ebay vendor identify the JMG cultivar? They are very interesting...just look at the leaf form of the reddish flowered one!

Joseph

I'd be curious to know what they are, too. The contrast of the outer speckled edge with the solid inner blue is especially beautiful to me. Baolvera, have you seen those old woodcuts of Japanese morning glories on Dr. Yoneda's website that go back hundreds of years? Dell has wired something into its recent computers that, when an internet connection is too slow - so they say - substitutes the following revolting link. I give that link here because it does show Dr. Yoneda's website address. I'd like to know if that website is really inaccessible tonight, or if Dell is pulling a fast one. Here's the link: http://www.google.com/hws/dell-usuk/afe?hl=en&channel=us&s=http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/menu.html
Would someone see if they can access Dr. Yoneda's website or if it's on the blink tonight?

bluespiral - both sites come right up for me...see if the mirror site link works any better fot you...

Dr.Yoneda's Encyclopedia of Morning Glories hosted by Hosei University
http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/menu.html

Dr.Yoneda's Encyclopedia of Morning Glories hosted by Soken University
http://taxa.soken.ac.jp/Asagao/E/menu.html

TTY,...

Ron

No they don't usually identify the JMG cultivar, but they are wonderful! Very detailed. Better in person than on the internet.

Louanne

I have seen the older woodblock prints, but these on ebay are from the 1950's. I think some of the older ones are of MG's that are no longer in existance. They don't identify the variety, and I think people just buy them for the artwork.

Thanks, Ron. The sites are coming up fine right now. Perhaps the difficulty in linking to them last night resulted from 1) the slowness of my dial-up connection being 2) compounded by a busy time of the night at our local library ISP. (Still, for those like me in the lower economic strata, it's a shame that we might lose access to the internet if smaller, less expensive ISPs like local libraries lose permission to provide this service)

Aren't those woodcuts wonderful? http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/slides/slide068-079.html

Here's another source from Germany of those woodcuts: http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/asagao/

Another way to find these morning glory woodcuts is to go through all the images by Asian artists over a period of several hundred years (heh heh - time consuming, but what a trip - there's a lot to be said for the "journey" aspect of reality). One central source for finding these artists and their work is:

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
1) In the middle column, where it says "browse artists", click on Nationality
2) In the right column, under Australasia/Africa, click on Japanese (I haven't gone near Chinese, yet, which is the main well-spring from which Japanese art derives)
A chronological list from the 12th century to the present comes up of Japanese artists.

I haven't gone through many of these - at the rate I'm going, it's probably going to take years. Plus I lost the morning glory in art history database that I made grr. I notice that the artist of the first woodcut posted in this thread was Shodo Kawarazaki (from Showa period 1926 - 1989), and he's not on this list. For several dozen of Kawarazaki's flower woodcuts, go to: http://www.ohmigallery.com/Sales/Sales.htm . Click on his name in the left column, and the links will take you to a lot of his work where the scans are relatively good, but not as good as what shows up on eBay from time to time. Also try www.google.com through the Image feature with his name - there are other morning glory woodcuts by him.

Another scan of a Japanese artist's print of a morning glory from the Showa period on the ohmigallery link is Ohno Bakufu.

The Showa period also included:

Shotei (aka Hiroaki Takahashi) who did another beautiful morning glory print that I got from http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/ukiyoe/c819b.jpg (from http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/gallery2.htm) Be warned that not everything on this website is family oriented.

and

Ohara Shoson is on the artcyclopedia website, but I don't see the source I have for a good scan of his morning glory print. Baolvera, how did you post your scan without that DG copyright thingy on the face of it?

I'm running out of time - will be back. This is a huge subject. I don't think it's necessary to actually own these prints in order to appreciate them, as great as that would be. I think we are all extremely lucky that the internet has become such a vast repository of thousands of images of "fine art" from so many parts of the world that can be enjoyed and studied without buying them. To own something is not necessarily to fathom it.

sorry baolvera, we crossed in cyberspace. Many older woodblock prints may no longer be in existence, but their images survive in later editions which are on the internet, which now has images of Japanese art going back at least to the 12th century. I haven't really begun studying China yet, but far less of their art seems to have survived than Japanese, possibly because of the effects of war on that country.

bluespiral....the copyright thing is there but it is in white and on the border so it doesn't show much.

bluespiral - You can easily change the way the copyright appears on any images that you post by

1) clicking onto the 'my info' tab near the top of the page

2) click on 'manage your preferences' under Your Actions

3) click on copyright listed in the left column

4) choose option #1 for no copyright watermark

5) hit the submit tab near the bottom

You can navigate and quickly re-change this feature for any images that you post...

Hope that helps...

TTY,...

Ron