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1 | Spring 1981 | Introduction | R. de Bruijn |
Three Days in Paris | R. de Bruijn | ||
Galerie Huguette Berès: Sharaku | Matthi Forrer | ||
Namban ou de l'Européisme Japonais - Japan Style | H.M. Kaempfer - H.M. Kaempfer | ||
Laurence Binyon | R. de Bruijn | ||
Albert Brockhaus, Netsuke | J. van Daalen Jr. | ||
Japanese Prints: 300 Years of Albums and Books | H.M. Kaempfer | ||
A little known print series by Utamaro | Israel Goldman | ||
Jack Hillier: "The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration" | R. de Bruijn | ||
A note on Buncho | Richard Lane | ||
2 | Summer 1981 | The Ancient Japanese Pillar Clock | Wilhelm Brandes |
Modern Netsuke in Traditional Style | Richard R. Silverman | ||
The Asahina Long Surimono | Matthi Forrer | ||
Bunchō once more | R. de Bruijn | ||
Hokusai Wakan Ehon Sakigake | Matthi Forrer | ||
Exquisite Visions: Rimpa Paintings from Japan | H.M. Kaempfer | ||
3 | Autumn 1981 | Kappazuri-e: Japanese stencil prints | H.R.W. Kühne |
Sugimura's Heike Prints | Richard Lane | ||
Kuniyoshi's Low Tide at Susaki, a five panel surimono | Roger Keyes | ||
Katsukawa Shunen: a new discovery | Heinz M. Kaempfer | ||
Kuniyoshi and his publishers | F.K. Lotgering | ||
Review: Klaus J. Brandt's "Hosoda Eishi" -first part | Roger Keyes | ||
Review: Primitive Ukiyo-e | Heinz M. Kaempfer | ||
The Ukiyo-e Prize: 1979 - 1980 | Editorial Notice | ||
4 | December 1981 | Shini-e or "memorial portraits" | F.K. Lotgering |
Shunei's early career | Lawrence H. Bickford | ||
A few notes concerning Kokusai | Carole Skiersobolski | ||
Ein neues Buch über Netsuke | A. Horodisch | ||
Klaus J. Brandt's "Hosoda Eishi"- second part | Roger Keyes | ||
5 | Spring 1982 | A Note on Bunchō | Richard Lane |
Plovers and Butterflies: The Soga Brothers in Japanese Prints | Roger Keyes | ||
Lids, Boxes and Bags, some notes on a collection of tea-ceramics | J. van Daalen Jr. | ||
6 | Summer 1982 | Sencha Spoons | Barry D. Till |
Will the Real Toyokuni II Stand Up? | Lawrence R. Bickford | ||
Further Considerations on Ippitsusai Bunchō | R. de Bruijn | ||
Pictorial Characteristics and the Ascription of Ukiyo-e | L.H. van der Tweel | ||
A Note on Shunei | Roger Keyes | ||
7 | Autumn 1982 | An exhibition of fan-prints by Hiroshige | R. de Bruijn |
Artistry in bamboo | Marie Myerscough | ||
Sugimura waves, Harunobu breasts, and .... Bette Davis eyes | Richard Lane | ||
On shunei | Lawrence R. Bickford | ||
Jacob Pins: The Japanese pillar print - Hashira-e | H.M. Kaempfer | ||
Published writings on Japanese prints by Arthur Davison Ficke | William Green | ||
8 | Winter 1982 | Hokusai in Western appreciation | Maartje Draak |
Hokusai's Dutch connection | Willem van Gulik | ||
Hokusai's visit to Nagoya | Prof. Susumu Matsudaira | ||
The effect of the Tenpō crisis upon the publication of illustrated books by Hokusai and his school | Matthi Forrer | ||
The second Hokusai | Roger Keyes | ||
9 | Spring 1983 | Concerning lacquer techniques and the origin of the inrō | H. Arakawa |
Poems inspired by Japanese prints | William Green | ||
Japanese umbrellas in London rain: a tribute to Jack Hillier | David Waterhouse | ||
10 | Summer 1983 | Two new original surimono by Hokkei | Matthi Forrer |
New aspects in the field of Osaka Chūban prints | Jan van Doesburg | ||
Siegfried Bing 1838 - 1905. An overview of his activities in the field of Oriental art | Peter van Dam | ||
Crow or Nightjar? | R. de Bruijn | ||
Essays on Japanese art: Some reflections | Richard Lane | ||
11 | Autumn 1983 | A chat on Arthur Davison (1883 - 1945) | William Green |
Kuniyoshi and his prophet | R. de Bruijn | ||
Keep those hands off Toyokuni II! | Richard Lane | ||
The scientist and the connoisseur, will they ever meet? | L.H. van der Tweel | ||
Book review: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art edited by Yutaka Tazawa | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book reviews: Great Japanese Art Series: Ukiyo-e by Tadashi Kobayashi and translated by Mark A. Harbison; Utamaro by Tadashi Kobayashi and translated by Mark A. Harbison; Hiroshige by Isaburō Oka and translated by Stanleigh H. Jones; Zen Ink Paintings by S. Barnet and W. Burto; Early Ukiyo-e Master: Okumura Masanobu by Robert Vergez | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book review: Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century by Donald Jenkins with the assistance of Gordon Gilkey and Louise Klemperer | Robert Schaap | ||
Book review: The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions by Lawrence Smith | Robert Schaap | ||
12 | Winter 1983 | Collector's seals | Matthi Forrer |
The frog and toad as seen through netsuke craft | Carole Skiersobolski | ||
Published writings of Hamilton Easter Field on Japanese prints | William Green | ||
Felix Tikotin 90 years | H.M. Kaempfer | ||
Book review: De Samurai: Japanse Krijgslieden, Hun Zwaarden en Zwaardsieraden by J.C. Angel et al | Kees Berbee | ||
Book review: Modern Japanese lacquer work (exhibition catalogue) | Jan Dees | ||
Book reviews: Surimono. Stampe Augurali nel Giappone del '700 e '800 by Helena Markus; Egoyomi et Surimono: Calendriers et Cartes de Voeux - Gravures sur Bois des XVIlle et XIXe Siècles by Werner Schindler | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book review: Kabuki Prints: Ukiyoe - Yakusha-e | G.C. Uhlenbeck | ||
Book review: Yoshitoshi's Thirty-six Ghosts by John Stevenson, with an introduction by Donald Richie | Robert Schaap | ||
Letter to the editors / From the editors | |||
13 | Spring 1984 | Dr. Arthur B. Duel (1870 - 1936). An American collector of Japanese prints | William Green |
Yakusha mitate Tōkaidō gojūsan eki. A Tōkaidō-album by Kunisada | F.K. Lotgering | ||
The decadent period of criticism in ukiyo-e scholarship | Lawrence R. Bickford | ||
Book review: A Sprinkling of Gold: The Lacquerbox Collection of Elaine Ehrenkranz by Barbra Teri Okada | Jan Dees | ||
Book review: The Shogun Age Exhibition | Robert Schaap | ||
Letter to the editors | |||
14 | Summer 1984 | An over-all view of Japanese ceramics and how they relate to netsuke | Richard R. Silverman |
Moronobu's 'Pillow-picture Compendium' Revisited | Richard Lane | ||
A peerless pair: Frederick W. Gookin and Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art Institute of Chicago's 1908 exhibition of Japanese prints | William Green | ||
15 | Autumn 1984 | Strings, bows and bridges. Some provisional remarks on the Kokyū in woodblock prints | Onno Mensink |
A variant impression on Hiroshige's Ōhashi | Marco Fagioli, Mario Materassi | ||
Two swords at an exhibition in Rotterdam | L.C. Duindam | ||
Lacquered netsuke: An attempt at understanding | Carole Skiersobolski | ||
Book review: Il Teatro Kabuki nelle Xilografie del Periodo Edo | H.R.W. Kühne | ||
Book review: Iconography of the Tale of Genji: Genji monogatari ekotoba by Miyeko Murase | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book review: Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints in the Spencer Museum of Art by Roger Keyes | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book review: Welten aufeinem Knebel by Wolfmar Zacken | A. Horodisch | ||
Book reviews: Fukei: Landscapes and Views - Prints by Eli Lancman and Pnina Rosenberg; The Spirit of Place: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries by Louisa Cunningham | Robert Schaap | ||
Letter to the editors / Erratum | |||
16 | Winter 1984 | Lost in time: The unpublished masterpiece on Katsukawa Shunshō | William Green |
Some notes on Japanese stencil makers | T. Volker | ||
Meet the collector: Kobe toys | Sandra Andacht | ||
Book review: The World of Kameda Bōsai by Stephen Addiss | Heinz M. Kaempfer | ||
Book reviews: 100 Selected Tsuba from European Public Collections by Robert Haynes and Robert Burawoy; Die Kunst der Samurai by H.J. Eschbaum, M. Hagenbusch, Han Bing Siong, Trudel Klefisch, J. Anderson and B. le Dauphin | L. C. Duindam | ||
Book reviews: Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, 8th - 19th century by Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield; Words in Motion: Modern Japanese Calligraphy (Worte in Bewegung) with introductions by Aoyama San'u, Stephen Addiss, Barbara Rose, Yanagida Taiun and Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter | Robert Schaap | ||
17 | Spring 1985 | Charles Mitchell: A 75th birthday tribute | Jack Hillier |
CH. Mitchell: A brief memoir | Richard Lane | ||
Cartoons by Kobayashi Kiyochika | Robert Vergez | ||
Nagasaki prints. An introduction | Frederick J. Roach | ||
Rarities from Japan - Part 1. The lacquerwares in three early nineteenth century Dutch collections | Cynthia Viallé | ||
18 | Summer 1985 | Illustrated books and magazines by Onchi Kōshirō | Robert Vergez |
The three ages of Ichikawa Danjūrō VII. Kunisada's depiction of Danjūrō VII in youth, maturity and old age | Ellis Tinios | ||
Wakai Kenzaburō, the connaisseur | Peter van Dam | ||
19 | Autumn 1985 | Rarities from Japan. The lacquerwares in three early nineteenth century Dutch collections - Part 2 | Cynthia Viallé |
Book review: Japanese Ink Painting: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in cooperation with the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Government of Japan, from March 10 to May 12, 1985 | Heinz M. Kaempfer | ||
Book review: Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Catalogue of the Mary A. Ainsworth Collection by Roger S. Keyes, with contributions by Robert L. Feller, Mary Curran and Catherine W. Bailie | Charlotte van Rappard-Boon | ||
20 | Winter 1985 | In memoriam Heinz M. Kaempfer 20 April 1904 - 14 March 1986 | R. de Bruijn |
A masterpiece: the twelve bronze falcons | Peter van Dam | ||
Eros crosses the seas: Ming erotica in Edo Japan | Richard Lane | ||
Treasures from heaven: children of Japan in the prints of ukiyo-e | William Green | ||
21 | Spring 1986 | Kuniyoshi: an appreciation of his drawings | Marco Fagioli |
Dreaming of Fuji, falcon and eggplant | Matthi Forrer | ||
Shimabara and Sumiya | Richard Lane | ||
Book review: Japanese ghosts & demons: Art of the Supernatural edited by Stephen Addiss | Robert Schaap | ||
Book review: Tales of Japan: Scrolls and Prints from the New York Public Library by Miyeko Murase | Robert Schaap | ||
Book review: Hiroshige: 'Kambara' - The Anatomy of a Japanese Print by Richard Lane | Donald Richie | ||
The Japonism of Claude Monet | R. de Bruijn | ||
The front cover | Robert Schaap | ||
22 | Summer 1986 | Toyokuni II revisited | Lawrence R. Bickford |
Uzawa Shōgetsu. Fifty-six lacquer objects in the Bauer Collection | Jan Dees and René van der Star | ||
Letter to the editors | |||
23 | Autumn 1986 | On the dating of Hokusai's Fuji | Richard Lane |
In memoriam Felix Tikotin 1893 - 1986 | R. de Bruijn | ||
Satsuma of the Edo period | Sandra Andacht | ||
The front cover | Ken Vos | ||
A footnote to Hiroshige's Meisho hyakkei | Ellis Tinios | ||
24 | Winter 1986 | A response to Dr. Bickford | Ellis Tinios |
A reply to Mr. Tinios | Lawrence R. Bickford | ||
FYI | Sandra Andacht | ||
Hokusai's Gothic connection: The yomi-hon | Richard Lane | ||
QA | Raymond Bushell | ||
Banko wares | Sandra Andacht | ||
How did these girls lose their heads? | Paul R. Schweitzer | ||
The front cover | Matthi Forrer | ||
25 | Spring 1987 | The Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts 1937 - 1987 | Matthi Forrer |
The anatomy of a Shunshō masterpiece | Lawrence R. Bickford | ||
The Royal Bazar of Dirk Boer | Peter van Dam | ||
Prussian blue and the dating of Hokusai's Fuji series | Lawrence R. Bickford | ||
Obituary Nathan Chaikin (1907 - 1987) | A. Querido | ||
Book review: Netsuke: The Hull Grundy Collection in the British Museum by Victor Harris | M.J. Eijer | ||
Book review: Kunisada: An Artist in the Kabuki Theatre | Chris Uhlenbeck | ||
Book review: Country Textiles of Japan: The Art of Tsutsugaki by Reiko Mochinaga Brandon | Matthi Forrer | ||
26 | Summer 1987 | The art of onnagata in the prints of Utagawa Kunisada | Ellis Tinios |
Illustrations of the 'Four Seasons' by Maruyama Ōkyo in the Haikaika Miyako manshū | Jack Hillier | ||
The fifth image of Shunman's Yamabushi series of surimono | Paul R. Schweitzer | ||
Sumida Gawa wares | Sandra Andacht | ||
The front cover | René van der Star | ||
Book review: The Art of the Japanese Book by Jack Hillier | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book review: The world of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization by Julia Meech-Pekarik | Eric van den Ing | ||
27 / 28 | Winter 1987 | 1987 symposium on the Meiji period | |
Japanese culture in an age of transition | F. Vos | ||
Continuity and change in the economics of Meiji japan | P.W. Klein | ||
Trompe-l'oeil, simulation and imitation in the decorative arts of the Meiji period | Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz | ||
Continuity and change in Japanese lacquer art during the Meiji and Taishō periods | Jan Dees | ||
Early photography and the decline of ukiyo-e | Richard Lane | ||
Japan Mania | Widar Halén | ||
The front cover | Christiaan Uhlenbeck | ||
29 | Spring 1988 | Hokusai's exotic decade | Richard Lane |
Grains of performance | Jan van Bremen | ||
Some remarks on an exhibition of contemporary Japanese goldleather | Isabel Tanaka-van Daalen | ||
Book review: Japanese Art Signatures by James Self and Nobuko Hirose | Ken Vos | ||
Book review: Japanese Antique Dolls by Jill and David Gribbin | Ken Vos | ||
Book review: Helden, Schurken, Kurtisanen: Das japanische Kabukitheater des 19. Jahrhunderts in Holzschnitten der Osakameister by Hendrik Lühl, Ulrich Gockeln, et al | Robert Schaap | ||
The front cover | Matthi Forrer | ||
30 | Summer 1988 | Early 19th century porcelain netsuke in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden | David Hyatt King |
A rare album print by Sukenobu surfaces for study | William Green | ||
Imperial lacquer boxes by Akatsuka Jitoku | Jan Dees | ||
Shunman's 'Yamabushi series' of surimono revisited | Jan H. Willem Goslings | ||
Book review: Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan by Henry D. Smith II | G.C. Uhlenbeck | ||
Book review: Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden by Matthi Forrer | Eric van den Ing | ||
Book review: La Voix Silencieuse des Choses: Natures Mortes Japonaises, XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles by Janette Ostier, Matthi Forrer, Reiko Vergnerie, and Nelly Delay | J.H.W. Goslings | ||
The front cover | M.J. Eijer | ||
31 | Autumn 1988 | Yanagi Sōetsu on les idéaux d'une pensée nourrie par l'est et l'ouest | Elizabeth Frolet |
The characteristics of wooden boxes with regard to temperature and humidity | Sadatoshi Miura | ||
The birth of kentō | Richard Kruml | ||
A rare chūban print by Bunchō | R. de Bruijn | ||
The front cover | Matthi Forrer | ||
32 | Winter 1988 | Cumulative subject index | |
Harunobu's relationship with Hiraga Gennai | Allen Hockley | ||
Chrysanthemums under the eastern hedge | Jan Dees | ||
How to draw actor portraits | Ellis Tinios | ||
33 | May 1990 | Japanese prints conservation. An overview | Keiko Mizushima Keyes |
Japanese flower prints | William E. Harkins | ||
Fujiyama and Eiffel Tower | R. de Bruijn | ||
The front cover | Ken Vos | ||
Book review: Urushi, proceedings of the 1985 Urushi Study Group edited by N.S. Brommelle and Perry Smith | Jan Dees | ||
Book review: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Henry D. Smith II | Robin Kennedy | ||
Book review: Ōsaka Prints by Dean J. Schwaab | J.H. Gisolf | ||
34 | August 1990 | Kawanabe Kyōsai's paintings in Europe and the United States | Oikawa Shigeru |
Two surimono-style shunga albums | Jan H. Willem Goslings | ||
Chinkinbori, gold engraving in lacquerware. A literature study | Jan Dees | ||
Kentō-huzare: Slightly off-register? | Richard Lane | ||
Identification of Prussian blue | Rochelle Wexler Bickford | ||
The front cover | Ken Vos | ||
Book review: Hokusai by Matthi Forrer, with texts by Edmond de Goncourt | Peter Morse | ||
35 | October 1990 | Kawahara Keiga in the Hermitage Museum | Victoria Dashkevich-Purto |
The Japanese sword, the supreme of metallurgical art | Han Bing Siong | ||
Book designs by Onchi, the graphic master | Robert Vergez | ||
Little Benkei, little Sōri: the anatomy of a surimono | Richard Lane | ||
The front cover | Jørgen J. Witsenburg | ||
Letter to the editor | |||
Book review: The Charles A. Greenfield collection | Jan Dees | ||
Book review: Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers with introduction by Cynthea J. Bogel, commentaries by Israel Goldman, and poetry translated by Alfred H. Marks | Robin Kennedy | ||
Book review: Hokusai: Life and Work by Richard Lane | Eric van den Ing | ||
36 | March 1991 | Tetsubin | P.L.W. Arts |
Utagawa Sadamasu, creator of the Osaka chūban style | Jan van Doesburg | ||
The Kiritsu Kōshō Kaisha | Hasegawa Sakae | ||
Two rare prints by Hokusai | R. de Bruijn | ||
The front cover | Robert B. Kleyn | ||
Book review: What about Kunisada? by Jan van Doesburg | Lawrence R. Bickford | ||
37 | June 1991 | Sketch-tour books and prints of the early twentieth century | Scott Johnson |
A rare Hiroshige Daishō surimono appears at Amherst college | William Green | ||
The front cover | René van der Star | ||
Book review: Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, by John Ayers, Oliver Impey, and J.V.G. Mallet | Ken Vos | ||
38 | September 1991 | The tales of Ise in lacquerware design | Jan Dees |
Hokusai's last great series | R. de Bruijn | ||
Dr. Steffi Schmidt † | Setsuko Kuwabara | ||
The front cover | Robert Schaap | ||
Book review: Jojō no shi: Taishō-Shōwa fūkei hangaka, Kawase Hasui (Lyrical poetry: Landscape Artist of the Woodblock Print During the Taisho and Showa Period, Kawase Hasui) | Karel Hellemans | ||
Book review: Die Kunst des Alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York edited by Gunhild Avitabile | Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz | ||
39 | December 1991 | Once upon a time...... the story of Benkei. A personal compilation of the events in the life of Benkei, from various sources | Arendie H. Kempers |
From Namban to Koryūsai: The Floating World of South Kensington | Richard Lane | ||
Ojime. An introduction | Robert O. Kinsey | ||
40 | February 1992 | Cumulative subject index | |
Shūraku, a problem of identities | Dieuwke Eijer | ||
Calender prints: egoyomi and surimono | Jan H. Willem Goslings | ||
The Kunisada-signature half-length actor portraits of Utagawa Kunisada | Ellis Tinios | ||
The front cover | Ellis Tinios | ||
Book review: Kabuki through Theater Prints, Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, James A. Michener Collection | Henk Herwig | ||
41 | June 1992 | Harunobu and before: The floating world of Cinquantenaire | Richard Lane |
Pictures of invisible men | Stephen Turnbull | ||
Yamamoto Shōun. prints of beautiful women of new customs and manners | Setsuke Abe | ||
The eccentric, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Western influence on his prints of warriors and beautiful women | Setsuke Abe | ||
The front cover | Ken Vos | ||
Book review: Souvenirs from Japan: Japanese Photography at the Turn of the Century by Margarita Winkel | Herman J. Moeshart | ||
42 | October 1992 | Japanese woodblock prints and impressionism | Gerhard Pulverer |
Photography of prints and small objects | Peter Groenewegen | ||
Additional drawings in Hokusai's 'Hundred poets' series | Peter Morse | ||
Teenage mutant ninja: the book | Richard Lane | ||
The front cover | Else Kress | ||
Book review: Undercurrents in the Floating World: Censorship and Japanese Prints by Sarah E. Thompson and Harry D. Harootunian, with an introduction by Vishakha N. Desai | John Stevenson | ||
43 | January 1993 | The American travels of Yoshida Hiroshi | Eugene M. Skibbe |
Beauties in the shade: Ukiyo-e in the decade of the 1770s | Richard Lane | ||
Shells in the Sumiyoshi's shore | Jan Dees | ||
Help wanted! Haranobu of fake | R. de Bruijn | ||
The front cover | Onno Mensink | ||
Book review: Japonisme Comes to America: The Japanese Impact on the Graphic Arts 1876-1925 by Julia Meech and Gabriel P. Weisberg | Arendie H. Kempers | ||
Book review: Imitation and Inspiration: Japanese Influence on Dutch Art From 1650 to the Present | Ken Vos | ||
44 | April 1993 | Japanese cloisonné | Sandra Borstlap |
Once upon a time...... The story of Watanabe no Tsuna. A personal compilation of the events in the life of Watanabe no Tsuna, from various sources | Arendie H. Kempers | ||
Help wanted! | |||
Book review: Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon by John Stevenson | Scott McDonald | ||
Book review: The New Wave: Twentieth Century Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection by Amy Reigle Stephens | Edmond S. Freis | ||
Book review: Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum by Timothy Clark | Ellis Tinios | ||
45 | September 1993 | Frank Lloyd Wright and the woodblock print: the geometric abstraction of natural, man-made, and social forms | Kevin Nute |
'Love's labour's lost': Some dirty tricks with shunga | Richard Lane | ||
Léon de Rosny and the beginning of Japanese studies in France | Dr. Joseph Dubois | ||
The front cover | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book review: Japanese Netsuke from the Carré Collection | Jan Dees | ||
Book review: Japanese Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art: Seto and Mino Ceramics by Louise Allison Cort | Len Spanjer | ||
46 | Winter 1993 | Jury report of the Heinz Kaempfer Fund essay contest | |
Porcelains for Holland, 1657 - 1862 | Menno Fitski | ||
Japanese ceramics at overseas exhibitions during the Bakumatsu period | Clare Pollard | ||
Painting with light and shadow. The katakiribori engraving technique as applied to the suspension chains of early 19th century tobacco pouches | Alfred P. Haft, III | ||
The front cover | Henk J. Herwig | ||
47 | March 1994 | Inrō made in the Ryūkyūs | Else Kress |
Three early uchiwa prints by Kunisada | Ellis Tinios | ||
Care of Japanese prints | Pamela de Tristan | ||
Restoration of a 'Fuji in Clear Weather' | Pamela de Tristan | ||
Help provided | |||
Book review: Kunisada's World by Sebastian Izzard, with essays by J. Thomas Rimer and John T. Carpenter | Tim Clark | ||
Book review: Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Bibliography of Writings from 1822-1993 Entirely or Partly in English Text compiled by William Green | Philip J. Shulman | ||
48 | July 1994 | Early European influences on Japanese pictorial Art | Marten Dorhout |
Moronobu: 300 years - The Japanese can't say "yes" | Richard Lane | ||
Seasons of the pleasure quarters | Ed Freis | ||
Book review: Japanese Folk Toys: The Playful Arts by Lea Baten | Len Spanjer | ||
The front cover | Ken Vos | ||
49 | October 1994 | Hiroshige: A shoal of red herrings | Richard Kruml |
Kyōsai at the British Museum | Oikawa Shigeru | ||
Sugimura's time-capsule | Richard Lane | ||
Help wanted! Help provided! | |||
Letters to the editor | |||
50 | March 1995 | Wrestler print studies | Lawrence Bickford |
Under the spell of Japanese art | R. de Bruijn | ||
The history of ukiyo-e between French taste and German philosophy | Marco Fagioli | ||
Love cannot be explained | Dr. J.H. Gisolf | ||
Collectors delight | Jan H. Willem Goslings | ||
Any ukiyo-e? | William Green | ||
Overcoming the post-war hostility to Japanese art | Jack Hillier | ||
Growing up under the scrutiny of a great Japanese Lady | Raymond Kaempfer | ||
In celebration | Roger S. Keyes | ||
A collector's lament | Gerrit Jan Korteling | ||
Daydreams of Kambun and Genroku | Richard Lane | ||
Charlie Mitchell and the 'discovery' of Yoshitoshi | Donna Levis | ||
Osaka prints, a love affair | Hendrick Lühl | ||
Discovery or good fortune? Ten years with Kyōsai paintings | Sigeru Oikawa | ||
Collecting Far Eastern art in Jeruselem | Jacob Pins | ||
Kyōchūzan by Kameda Bōsai | Gerhard Pulverer | ||
Early awakening | B.W. Robinson | ||
Hooked on collecting Japanese art | Richard R. Silverman | ||
Acquiring a set of fūzoka sanjūnisō | John Stevenson | ||
Kafuku nimpitsu | Ellis Tinios | ||
Concerning Fenellosa's death | Seiichi Yamaguchi | ||
Book review: The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the Katsukawa School by Timothy T. Clark and Osamu Ueda with an introduction by Donald Jenkins, edited by Naomi Noble Richard | David Caplan | ||
The front cover | Lea Baten | ||
51 | June 1995 | Yumeji's Twelve views of Nagasaki | Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada |
Ganshōsai Shunsui, an early 20th century lacquer artist | Jan Dees | ||
Down and out in the Blue-light Yokohama: "Love's labor's lost" encore | Richard Lane | ||
Jack Hillier 1912 - 1995 | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book review: Kunisada: The Kabuki Actor Portraits by Shindō Shigeru | Ellis Tinios | ||
A pair of Yamato dolls | |||
52 | September 1995 | Poetry, emotion and form in Utamaro's Tōsei koika hakkei | John Fiorillo |
Three prints from the Taiheiki eiyūden series by Kuniyoshi | Elena Varshavskaya | ||
Pigments on Yoshitoshi triptychs | John Twilley | ||
Book review: Beauty & Violence: Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892 by Eric van den Ing and Robert Schaap with an introduction by John Stevenson | Roger Keyes | ||
Book review: The Baur Collection - Japanese prints by Matthi Forrer | Robert Schaap | ||
Book review: Takejiro Hasegawa: Meiji Japan's Preeminent Publisher of Wood-Block-Illustrated Crepe-Paper Books by Frederic A. Sharf | Chris Uhlenbeck | ||
Book review: Stars From the Stage in Osaka: Early 19th-century Japanese Kabuki Prints by Matthi Forrer | Hendrick Lühl | ||
Help wanted! | Lothar Kazmierczak, Wilhelm Preker | ||
The front cover | Robert Schaap | ||
53 | March 1996 | Yoshida Toshi 1911 - 1995. Diversity, change and continuity in the Yoshida art tradition | Eugene M. Skibbe |
The Toyokuni signature confusion | Lawrence Bickford | ||
Romancing the print. 'Image enhancement' - online ukiyo-e - gender identity | Richard Lane | ||
The yamabushi reunited | Jan Willem Goslings | ||
Book review: Haiga: Takebe Sōchō and the Haiku-Painting Tradition by Stephen Addiss | Eric van den Ing | ||
Book review: The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono by Joan B. Mirviss with John T. Carpenter, introduction by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer | Jan H. Willem Goslings | ||
54 | June 1996 | Tragedy and laughter in the floating world: shinjū in the works of Utamaro and Kyōden | John Fiorillo |
New woodblocks for Toyokuni III's okubi-e actor portraits | Eiko Kondo | ||
Letter to the editor | |||
Book review: The Passionate Art of Utamaro by Shūgō Asano and Timothy Clark | John Fiorillo | ||
Book review: The index of inrō artists by E.A. Wrangham, edited by Joe Earl | Jan Dees | ||
Book review: Teihon ukiyo-e shunga meihin shusei (The complete ukiyo-e shunga) by Richard Lane and Yoshikazu Hayashi | Eric van den Ing | ||
55 | November 1996 | The artist as seer: Yoshida Hodaka 1926 - 1995 | Eugene M. Skibbe |
The celestial globe as an attribute of a military strategist | Elena Varshavskaya | ||
A green kōdansu by Yanagisawa Ippō | Jan Dees and J. van Daalen | ||
Toyokuni revisited....... once more | Hendrick Lühl | ||
56 | February 1997 | Once upon a time..... The story of Endō Moritō and Kesa Gozen | Arendie Kempers |
Two objects in Czech collections from the Makuzu Kozan studio | Filip Suchomel | ||
Reply to Mr. Hendrick Lühl | Lawrence R. Bickford | ||
Book review: Biobibiographisches Handbuch japanischer und chinesischer buddhistischer und shintōistischer Priester, Münche und Nonnen und mit ihnen verbundener Künstler mit Bedeutung für Schrift und Malerei by Eike Moog | Jon de Jong and Robert Schaap | ||
The front cover | Robert Schaap | ||
57 | September 1997 | Akatsuka Jitoku in Buckingham Palace | Jan Dees |
A remarkable Tōkaidō set | Rob de Bruijn | ||
A rare surimono by Shōkōsai and its place among early Osaka actor portraits | John Fiorillo | ||
Book review: Das Ding am Gürtel: Japanische Medizin-döschen aus der Sammlung Heinz und Else Kress edited by Theodor Helmert-Corvey | Jan Dees | ||
Book review: Edo Culture: Daily life and diversions in urban Japan, 1600-1868 by Nishiyama Matsunosuke, translated and edited by Gerald Groemer | Guita Winkel | ||
Long leg and long arm out fishing. The front cover | Matthi Forrer | ||
58 | April 1998 | Hachogane, the musick of eight | Onno Mensink |
Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan, China & the Chinese in Japanese books and prints; c. 1750 - 1850 | Ellis Tinios | ||
Hokusai drawings, from draft to finished print | Richard C. Illing | ||
Endō Moritō again | Johan Somerwil | ||
The front cover | Henk J. Herwig | ||
Researching a Shuntei painting | Eric van den Ing | ||
59 | July 1998 | Hirosada: prints and drawings for the tale of Usuyuki and Chūkō buyūden | John Fiorillo |
The opening of the 'Japanese Library of Art' in Amsterdam | |||
Multiple paintings | Eric van den Ing | ||
Letter to the editor. A manju revisited | |||
Book review: Japanese Inrō by Julia Hutt | Jan Dees | ||
Book reviews: Japanese art - The great European collections; Ukiyo-e paintings in Japanese collections | Robert Schaap | ||
Book review: The connoisseur's book of Japanese swords by Kokan Nagayama, translated by Kenji Mishina | Eric van den Ing | ||
60 | September 1998 | Pictorial formulae of martial attributes in Kuniyoshi's warrior prints | Elena Varshavskaya |
Kuniyoshi's cats | Rudy Kousbroek | ||
Kuniyoshi's cryptogram | Johan Somerwil | ||
The poet and the demon. A Kuniyoshi print and its inspirations | Ivo Smits | ||
Book review: The Western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan: The lens within the heart by Timon Screech | Martha Chaiklin | ||
A remarkable Tōkaidō set (2) | Helmut Wilmes | ||
61 | January 1999 | One of Seihō's lions | Eric van den Ing |
Reflections on Zenga | Stephen Addis | ||
Kuniyoshi's 'Tokaidō cats' triptich | B.W. Robinson | ||
Mr. R. de Bruijn as I remember him | Matthi Forrer | ||
Book review: New kabuki encyclopedia: A revised adaptation of Kabuki jiten by Samuel L. Leiter | Henk Herwig | ||
Book review: Edo no haru: etoranjie erotikku (Strangers in paradise: the foreign image in Japanese art and shunga) by Richard Lane | M. Winkel | ||
62 | June 1999 | The ningen kokuhō: a new symbol for the Japanese nation | Peter Siegenthaler |
A glimpse at nishiki-e kuchi-e by Watanabe Seitei | Helen Merritt | ||
Letter to Andon. The view from Japan | |||
The front cover | Gerrit-Jan Korteling | ||
Book review: Heroes & Ghosts: Japanese prints by Kuniyoshi 1797-1861 by Robert Schaap, with an introduction by Amy Reigle Newland, and essays by Timothy T. Clark, Matthi Forrer, and Inagaki Shin'ichi | Merlin Dailey | ||
Book review: Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts with catalog entries by Yoko Woodson and essays by Julia White, Reiko Mochinaga Brandon, and Yoko Woodson | John Fiorillo | ||
Book review: Teihon ukiyo-e meihin shūsui by Richard Lane | Eric van den Ing | ||
63 | October 1999 | The Gion Parade stencil prints | Peter Ujlaki |
Refashioning the legends of komachi in mitate-e | John Fiorillo | ||
In memoriam. Bibliography of the writings of Jack Ronald Hillier (1912 - 1995) | William Green | ||
Book review: Masterpieces of Japanese art | Wim de Hoop | ||
64 | December 1999 | Colourful Edo: fire and cloth | Cynthia Shaver |
Dutch influence on Japanese art: Kaitai shinsho (New book of anatomy) and Akita ranga | Hiroko Johnson | ||
Book review: Tea of the sages: The art of sencha by Patricia J. Graham | Anna Beerens | ||
65 | April 2000 | An electron transmission analysis of metallic particles in nineteenth century Japanese woodblock prints | John Fiorillo, Richard Hashimoto and Sarath Menon |
Tsuba, their manufacturers and techniques | Brigitta Sueters | ||
Letter to the editor | |||
Book review: The last Tosa: Iwasa Matabei, bridge to ukiyo-e by Sandy Kita | Lee Bruschke-Johnson | ||
66 | July 2000 | The nō-orchestra in print | Magda Kyrova |
Two supplements | |||
In memory of Eiko Kondo 1931 - 2000 | Fiamma Del Gaizo Fusco | ||
Off the block. A new look at the origins of Nagasaki prints | Martha Chaiklin | ||
Western inspiration in a print by Yoshitoshi: Yamauba and Kaidōmaru | Kris Schiermeier | ||
Book review: Time present and time past: Images of a forgotten master, Toyohara Kunichika, 1835-1900 by Amy Reigle Newland | Henk Herwig | ||
Yamamoto Shōun (1870 - 1965) | Frederick Harris | ||
67 | October 2000 | Pictorial representations of the ken-game during the Edo and Meiji periods | Sepp Linhardt |
Letter to the editor | |||
Kishi Ganku: one date and two plums | Jon de Jong | ||
Book review: Miniature masterpieces: The storytelling art of Japanese inrō — Selected objects from the collection of Joseph Kurstin by Joseph Kurstin | Johan Somerwil | ||
The series Nōgaku Hyakuban (100 Nō plays) by Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869 - 1927) | Claus-Peter Schulz | ||
68 | Spring 2001 | Darkness and the sounds of music: blind musicians of Tokugawa Japan seen in ukiyo-e | William Green |
Human figures in Hokusai's Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji | Fabienne Delpy | ||
Letter to the editor | |||
In memory of Susuma Matsudaira 1933 - 2000 | Peter Ujlaki | ||
Book review: Hirado: Prince of porcelains by Louis Lawrence | Menno Fitski | ||
69 | October 2001 | Pipe cases by Ikeda Taishin. The discovery of an album of charcoal rubbings | Jan Dees and Arisumi Mitamura |
Japanese lacquerware | Susanne Barchalla | ||
Book reviews: Sengai - Master Zen painter by Shōkin Furuta; Old Taoist: The life, art and poetry of Kodōjin (1865-1944) with translations of and commentary on the Chinese poems by Jonathan Chaves, and an essay by J. Thomas Rimer | Anna Beerens | ||
Book review: Japanese paintings: A selection from the Baelz collection by Doris Croissant and Misako Wakabayashi | Robert Schaap | ||
70 | January 2002 | Lyricism amid the cannon salvos. A few notes on Japanese prints with the theme of the Sino-Japanese war in the collections of the National Gallery and Náprestek Museum in Prague | Philip Suchomel |
Sukenobu's colours | Henry Kerlen | ||
Two ceramic inrō by Ken'ya | Else Kress | ||
Book reviews: Woodblock Kuchi-e prints: Reflections of Meiji culture by Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada | Elmer Kolfin, Amy Reigle Newland | ||
71 | May 2002 | Eizan: Putting on a new face. A mirror of fūryū, asobi and iki | John Fiorillo |
Stepmother, stepson. Novel by Yanagawa Shun'yō, Kuchi-e by Hirezaki Eihō, published by Kanao Bun'endō | Nanako Yamada | ||
The blind as metaphorical subjects in the pictorial arts of Japan | Helmut Wilmes | ||
Book review: Crows, cranes & camellias: The natural world of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 — Japanese prints from the Jan Perrée collection by Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perrée and Robert Schaap | W. John Minzinga | ||
72 & 73 | October 2002 | Editor's introduction | John Fiorillo and Peter Ujlaki |
A personal note | Peter Ujlaki | ||
Matsudaira Susumu, 1933 - 2000 | |||
A selected list of books and monographs on ukiyo-e from Kamigata and Edo by Matsudaira Susumu | |||
Tani Seikō and his circle | Roger Keyes | ||
Notes on the sumizuri actor prints of Kyoto | Kitagawa Hiroko | ||
A brief overview of Kamigata stencil prints | Nakade Akifumi & Peter Ujlaki | ||
Representing rivalry and transition in kabuki. Arashi Kichisaburō versus Nakamura Utaemon III | C. Andrew Gerstle | ||
Ireki in Osaka actor prints | Hendrick Lühl | ||
Edo actors in Osaka prints: Surimono by Ukiyo Utayoshi | John T. Carpenter | ||
Osaka tattoos | Jan van Doesburg | ||
Ryūsai Shigeharu: 'Quick change' dances in the Utaemon tradition | John Fiorillo and Peter Ujlaki | ||
74 | May 2003 | Japanese treasures from Sumatra's West coast. Japanese porcelain from the Verbeek Collection | Jan van Campen |
Shibaraku! Reflections on viewing a masterly portrait of Danjūrō Toyokuni I | William Green | ||
Robert O. Muller, 1912 - 2003 | Chris Uhlenbeck | ||
Emma-ō, the king of Hell | Johan Somerwil | ||
Book review: The Tale of Genji: Legends and paintings, introduction by Miyeko Murase | Arendie Kempers | ||
Book review: Shintō: The sacred art of ancient Japan edited by Victor Harris | Mark Teeuwen | ||
Book review: Inrō of the Ryūkyūs: Lacquered medicine containers by Else and Heinz Kress, with an introduction by Josef Kreiner | Jan Dees | ||
75 | October 2003 | Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list | Peter Ujlaki and Nakade Akifumi |
Book review: Hasui: The complete woodblock prints by Ken Brown and Amy Reigle Newland (gen. ed.), an essay by Watanabe Shōichirō and catalogue contributions by Inge Klompmakers, Merel Molenaar, Amy Reigle Newland, Okura Haruko, Dick N.W. Raatgever, Robert Schaap and Chris Uhlenbeck | W. John Minzinga | ||
Book review: The prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World culture and its consumers in eighteenth-century Japan by Allen Hockley | James King | ||
76 | March 2004 | The Somada lacquer workshop at Toyama. Part I, Shell-inlaid objects made by Somada craftsmen during more than 200 years | Hideki Yoshikawa |
Imari marks and their origin | Henri Kerlen | ||
On the death of Dr. Richard Lane | Eric van den Ing | ||
Kachō-e by Seiko compared with Watanabe Seitei's illustrated books on birds and flowers | Dietrich Neumann and Robert Schaap | ||
Gassaku, japanese co-productions | Jon de Jong | ||
77 | November 2004 | On Czech collections of Japanese art | Helena Honcoopová |
Ancient and modern ways of handling the brush. A didactic handscroll by Kawamura Bumpō | Ellis Tinios | ||
The Somada lacquer workshop at Toyama. Part II, Rareness of Somada inrō | Hideki Yoshikawa | ||
Edo on a mouse click. The picture scroll Kidai shōran | Hideki Yoshikawa | ||
Book review: The commercial and cultural climate of Japanese printmaking edited by Amy Reigle Newland | Daniel McKee | ||
Book review: Hōeidō-ban, Hiroshige: Tōkaidō Gojūsan tsugi by Juzō Suzuki, Yaeko Kimura and Jun'ichi Ōkubo | Setsuko Kuwabara | ||
78 | March 2005 | A jumping carp by Yamamoto Shunkyo and Paul Claudel | Victor M. Schmidt |
A constellation of sources. Shuntei, Toyokuni I and the genesis of Kuniyoshi's warrior prints | James King | ||
Kawase Hasui and the Byōdōin | Julie Weissenberg-Deville | ||
Kuniyoshi's Taiheiki series: 50 or 51 prints? | Johan Somerwil | ||
Book review: Japanese kite pints: Selections from the Skinner Collection by John Stevenson | Daniel McKee | ||
Book reviews: The potter's brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese ceramics by Richard L. Wilson; Turning point: Oribe and the arts of sixteenth-century Japan edited by Miyeko Murase | Menno Fitski | ||
Book review: Handbuch japanischer Holzschnitt: Hintergründe, Techniken, Themen und Motive by Friedrich B. Schwan | Andreas Marks | ||
Book review: Japon rêvé: Edmond de Goncourt et Hayashi Tadamasa by Brigitte Koyama-Richard | Arendie Kempers | ||
79 | December 2005 | Treasure your storage boxes. Tomobako for lacquer objects as carriers of historical data | Jan Dees |
Keisai Eisen and his landscapes with Dutch letter borders | Daan Kok | ||
Gregorios Manos and the Corfu Museum of Asian Art | Aglaia Karamandou | ||
Jizō bosatsu. Guardian of children and travellers | Johan Somerwil | ||
Book review: Inrō shita-e: Design Drawings from a Japanese Lacquer Workshop by Else Kress and Heinz Kress | Jan Dees | ||
Book review: Collecting Japanese antiques by Alistair Seton | Johan Somerwil | ||
Book reviews: Dipinti e stampe del Mondo Fluttuante: Capolavori Ukiyoe del Museo Chiossone di Genova by Donatella Failla; Avvolti nel mito: Tessuti e costumi tra Settecento e Novecento dalla collezione Montgomery edited by Annie M. van Assche | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
Special Enjuka | 2006 | Yonezo | |
Preface | |||
Enjuka. An Osaka master of the deluxe print during the transition to the final period | John Fiorillo and Hendrick Lühl | ||
Enjuka database | |||
Appendices | |||
Back page | |||
80 | June 2006 | News nishiki-e. An arranged marriage that didn't last | William Wetherall and Mark Schreiber |
Putting three and three together. Discovering a Kuniyoshi polytech (among other finds) | David R. Weinberg | ||
Collecting Japanese art in Hungary around the turn of the 20th century | Monika Bincsik | ||
Kangi-ten the secret deity | Johan Somerwil | ||
In memoriam B.W. Robinson. 20th June 1912 - 29th December 2005 | Robin Kennedy | ||
Jacob Pins: artist, collector and connoisseur | Raymond Kaempfer and Rebecca Bitterman | ||
Book review: Written Texts - Visual Texts: Woodblock-printed media in Early Modern Japan Edited by Susanne Formanek & Sepp Linhart | William Wetherall | ||
Book review: The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints by Amy Reigle Newland (General editor) and specialist advisers Julie Nelson Davis, Oikawa Shigeru, Ellis Tinios and Chris Uhlenbeck | Andreas Marks | ||
81 | January 2007 | When the shogun travels to Kyoto. The great Processional Tōkaidō series | Andreas Marks |
Caring for netsuke | Margrit Reuss and Farideh Fekrsanati | ||
Ireki and the marketing of an artist | John Fiorillo | ||
Book reviews: Haiku & Heiga: Moments in word and image — Four centuries of Japanese scroll paintings from the Jon de Jong collection (Augenblicke in Wort und Bild: Japanische Rollbilder aus vier Jahrhunderten aus der Sammlung Jon de Jong) | Thomas Hirsch, Victor M. Schmidt | ||
82 | July 2007 | La maison d'un artiste | Max Put |
The Japanese incense culture and its related implements, focusing on maki-e lacquer | Monica Bincsik | ||
Chinese and Japanese lacquers from the Medici Collection | Francesco Morena | ||
Utagawa Kunisada's reissues | Andreas Marks | ||
Osaka kabuki at the BM. Quantum jumps in the print field | Peter Ujlaki | ||
Book review: Japanese popular prints: From votive slips to playing cards by Rebecca Salter | Lawrence Smith | ||
83 | March 2008 | Kuniyoshi's ken caricatures between 1847 and 1853 | Sepp Linhart |
'The Courtisan Takao' by Toyohara Kunichika | Amy Reigle Newland with Makuuchi Tatsuji | ||
Four variations of Ōboshi Rikiya Yoshikane in Kuniyoshi's series Seichū gishi den | Hendrick Lühl | ||
Game over - The last days of hand-made Japanese playing cards | Rebecca Salter | ||
A rejoinder to William Wetherall's book review of Written Texts - Visual Texts in Andon 80 | Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart | ||
Kimono pattern books in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Rachael Saunders | ||
Book review: Ehon, The artist and the book in Japan by Roger S. Keyes | Chris Uhlenbeck | ||
Book review: Japanese Warríor Prints 1646-1905 by James King & Yuriko Iwakiri | Johan Somerwil | ||
84 | November 2008 | Exploring uncharted aspects of Utagawa Hiroshige: an annotated checklist of his surimono | Robert Schaap and Dan McKee |
When two Utagawa masters get together. The artistic relationship between Hiroshige and Kunisada | Andreas Marks | ||
Mitate kokkei Chūshingura. Hiroshige's humorous parodies of the Loyal Retainers | Pierre Wijermans and Henk Herwig | ||
Frank Lloyd Wright and the architectural implications of Hiroshige's pictorial space | Kevin Nute | ||
85 | Spring 2009 | The whole world in your hands: Ehon and the mirror of art | Roger Keyes |
'A prodigious correspondence'. The letters addressed to Heinz Kaempfer kept in the archive of the Society | Max Put | ||
Growing up under the scrutiny of a great Japanese Lady | Raymond Kaempfer | ||
In memoriam Heinz Kaempfer | Gerhard Pulverer | ||
The illustrated books of Kawamura Bunpō (1779 - 1821). Focussing on the Kaidō kyōka awase of 1812 | Matthi Forrer | ||
86 | September 2009 | Hamada Shōji, artist and artisan | Robert B. Kleyn |
Ceramics for the Japanese tea ceremony in the Rijksmuseum: the collection of Herman Karel Westendorp | Menno Fitski | ||
Namazu-e: catfish picture prints of 1855 | Gregory Smits | ||
Nihon no hanga, an exciting new private museum | Eric van den Ing | ||
Chinnen's Mount Fuji | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
In memoriam: Johan Somerwil (1926 - 2009) | Menno Fitski | ||
Book review: Literati Modern, Bunjinga from Late Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan: The Terry Welch Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts by Paul Berry and Michiyo Morioka | Ed Freis | ||
Book review: Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints, with a Catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection edited by John T. Carpenter with essays by John T. Carpenter, Alfred Haft, Nadin Hee, Iwata Hideyuki, Kobayashi Fumio, Daan Kok, Makino Satoshi, Daniel McKee, Joan B. Mirviss, Hans Bjarne Thomsen, and Tsuda Mayumi | Sebastian Izzard | ||
Errata - Bibliography Hiroshige surimono | |||
87 | December 2009 | Japan Tattoo | |
Notes to the catalogue | |||
Japan tattoo, a brief history of its origins and development | Willem van Gulik | ||
Kuniyoshi's tattooed heroes of the Suikoden. Righteous rebels from China in Japanese prints | Inge Klompmakers | ||
The beauty of cruelty. The origins of Danshichi and his evolution as a tattooed anti-hero in Natsu matsuri | John Fiorillo | ||
Japanese tattooing today | Mark Poysden | ||
Catalogue | |||
Artists, authors and actors | |||
88 | July 2010 | When the namazu shakes its body. Japanese catfish prints published after the Ansei earthquake in 1855 | Albrecht & Gisela Rabitz |
Nashitsubo no gokasen - Five immortal poetesses of the Pear Chamber. A series of surimono by Katsushika Hokusai | Helena Capková | ||
The FC-monogram box. A masterpiece of japanese export lacquer | Jan Dees | ||
In memoriam Helen Meritt (1920 - 2009) | Helen M Nagata | ||
Book review: Taishō Kimono: Speaking of Past and Present by Jan Dees with photographs by Michiel Elsevier Stokmans | Anna Beerens | ||
Book review: Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floatíng World, 1690-1850 edited by Anne Nishimura Morse | Julie Nelson Davis | ||
89 | December 2010 | In the shadow of another. Introducing the 'Meiji no Edokko' Baidō Hōsai | Amy Reigle Newland |
Tsuchiya Kōitsu (1870 - 1949). An artist's journey | Ross F. Walker and Toshikazu Doi | ||
Actor surimono by Hiroshige. Kyōka circles and the patronage of poetry prints | John T. Carpenter | ||
Thinking back to the time of master Sleepyhead: portraits of kyōka poets | Daan Kok | ||
Book review: Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School by Laura J. Mueller | Andreas Marks | ||
Erratum | Andreas Marks | ||
90 | June 2011 | Poetry and parody in Suzuki Harunobu's Eight Fashionable Parlor Views | Ishigami Aki |
A craze for auctions. Japanese art on sale in the 19th century Paris | Manuela Moscatiello | ||
Moving day: the intersection of art and history. A magnificent triple triptych recording emperor Meiji's move from Kyoto to Edo | Sheldon Siegel | ||
The Wrangham sale - part one. Renewed interest in inrō and lacquer? | Jan Dees | ||
In memory of Suzuki Jūzō (1919-2010) | Roger Keyes | ||
Book review: Portraits of Chōgen: The Transformation of Buddhist Art in Early Medieval Japan by John M. Rosenfield | Menno Fitski | ||
91 | December 2011 | An inrō by Koma Koryū presented in 1794 to Empress Catharina the Great of Russia | Else and Heinz Kress |
Publishers of Tsuchiya Kōitsu works | Ross F. Walker and Toshikazu Doi | ||
Moriya Shōtei's 'Pea plant box'. Designed after a VOC-imported book mirror? | Jan Dees | ||
Japan 1905 - 1931: Years of irony and paradox | Anna Beerens | ||
Kōgyo in his own words: 'Nō and Nō pictures' | Tsukioka Kōgyo | ||
Shokoku meisho. An unrecorded late Hiroshige I landscape series? | Evelyn Lachner | ||
Book review: Japanese prints: Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900 by Ellis Tinios | Annn Beerens | ||
Rectification | Sheldon Siegel | ||
92 | June 2012 | Tōshūsai Sharaku, the man, his works and Tsutaya Jūsaburō | Matthi Forrer |
A broader view: The rise of the ukiyo-e triptych | David Pollack | ||
The coming-out of a manju netsuke | Ton & Mies Becker | ||
Zuihitsu: Beautiful blackened smiles | Gina Collia-Suzuki | ||
Architecture in the Taishō period (1912 - 1926) | Dave van Eijnsbergen | ||
Book review: Yoshitoshi - Masterpieces from the Ed Freis collection by Chris Uhlenbeck and Amy Reigle Newland | John Stevenson | ||
Book review: Fiori d'Oriente, arte e poesia: metafore e simboli nella cultura artistica e letteraria del Giappon by Donatella Failla, with contributions by Enrico Franceschi, Federico Locardi and Huang Min | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
Book review: Behind Paper Walls: Early Works and Portraits by Jun'ichiro Sekino by Bill and Roberta Stein, Elias Martin and Yowsaku Sekino | Maureen de Vries | ||
Book review: One hundred years of beatitude, catalogue by Paul Moss and photography by Ken Adlard | Henk C. Hoogsteden | ||
93 | December 2012 | Novel images: kuchi-e from the Clough collection at the National Library of Australia | Gary Hickey and Amy Reigle Newland |
Senshafuda - a living woodblock tradition. The evolution of votive prayer slips to exchange cards | Rebecca Salter and Toshikazu Doi | ||
A 'Luis' mark in Namban-style lacquer | Yayoi Kawamura | ||
The Wrangham sale part two and part three. Renewed interest in inrō persists | Jan Dees | ||
Zuihitsu: History to get your teeth into | Gina Collia-Suzuki | ||
Book review: Splendid impressions: Japanese secular painting 1400-1900 in the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne edited by Doris Croissant, with forward by Adele Schlombs and contributions by Yukio Lippit, Melissa McCormick, Matthew P. McKelway, Joshua S. Mostow and Melanie Trede | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
Book review: Warten auf das Neujahrslicht: Japanische Grußblätter (Surimono) aus dem Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Waiting for the Sunrise on New Year's Day: Japanese Congratulatory Greetings (Surimono) from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg edited by Ursula Lienert, with Hannelore Dreves and Mizuki Wildenhahn | Susanne Schäffler-Gerken | ||
94 | June 2013 | Introduction | Jan Dees |
Twenty lacquer objects 1927-1934 | Jan Dees | ||
The first eight years: modernity established | Jan Dees | ||
Twenty lacquer objects 1936-1944 | Jan Dees | ||
The celebration of modernity | Jan Dees | ||
Acknowledgements and notes | Jan Dees | ||
Appendix I: Note on white pigments and coloured lacquers | |||
Appendix II: Survey of exhibitions | Jan Dees | ||
Glossary of lacquering techniques | Jan Dees | ||
95 | December 2013 | Nobori: witnesses of a forgotten world. The banners of Kitamura Yoshichika | |
The new guardians of the Rijksmuseum | Menno Fitski | ||
Zeshin's "Crows in flight at sunsine'. The anatomy of a print | Robert Schaap | ||
Introducing the Japanese sword | Colin M. Roach | ||
Two versions of Takahashi Shōtei's 'Starry night' | Gisela & Albrecht Rabitz | ||
Ōnamuchi no mikoto. A lost legend | Ton & Mies Becker | ||
Zuihitsu: Cast shadows | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
Book review: 101 netsuke: Japanse gordelknoop miniaturen uit de Schattenstolp (Japanese toggles from the Treasure Farm) by Ton and Mies Becker | Daan Kok | ||
Book review: Netsuke: Dutchmen in miniature from the Coen Hille collection by Chris Uhlenbeck and Teatske Kramer | Ewa Machotka | ||
96 | May 2014 | Koban nishiki-e: Rare small-format colour prints from Osaka | John Fiorillo and Peter Ujlaki |
Surprise comparisons in Kunisada's print series Mitate sanjūrokkusen | Henk Herwig, Jos Vos, and Paul Griffith | ||
Edo Kabuki and money | Tove Björk | ||
Book Review: Erotic Japonisme: The influence of Japanese sexual imagery on Western Art by Richard Bru | Max Put | ||
The Wrangham sale: Confusion and disappointment - part three (continued) and part four | Jan Dees | ||
97 | September 2014 | The 'Greater Taishō' era: a boiling cultural stew | Hollis Goodall |
Modernity and the past: 'period drama' in Taishō cinema | Ivo Smits | ||
Who is Kishida Ryūsei? A case study of a Taishō-era yōga painter | Kuraya Mika | ||
Shin hanga in America, 1923-1930: Yoshida Hiroshi's journey from painter to printmaker | Kendall H. Brown | ||
Eclecticism as a mode of transformation in Taishō nihonga: an interpictorial approach to period style | Paul Berry | ||
Shin hanga and nihonga in Berlin, 1929-1932: donations and exhibitions | Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz | ||
For girls and wives: narrating 'tradition' and 'modernity' through gendered publications of the Taishō era | Ewa Machotka | ||
Fashioning the 'Greater Taishō' era | Anna Jackson | ||
New colours, a new profession & a new idea: zuan enrich Kyoto design books | Scott Johnson | ||
98 | December 2014 | Carving out a niche. Sösaku hanga and the 20th-century Japanese prints art | Eric van den Ing |
Beauties and beyond: situating Takehisa Yumeji and the Yumeji-shiki | Nozomi Naoi | ||
Takehisa Yumeji's designs for music score covers | Sabine Schenk | ||
An album of Osaka actor prints | Hendrick Lühl | ||
The Japanese collection at the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath | Nicole T.C. Chiang | ||
Book review: Kabuki, Japanese theatre prints by Rosina Buckland | Robert Schaap | ||
99 | April 2015 | Intertwined characters. Parody images in Edo visual culture | Ryoko Matsuba |
Travelling as inspiration. The life and work of Fukui Kötei (1866 - 1937) | Sonja Simonis | ||
Stories from Mount Fuji. Five prints from the Dorhout Collection in the Rijksmuseum | Marije Jansen | ||
Naturalism in Meiji-period ceramics. "Basin with a crab" by Miyagawa Közan I (1842 - 1916) | Shinya Maezaki | ||
The Swinging Dutchman. An exceptional tobacco set attributed to Hasegawa Ikko | Jan Dees | ||
Dutch coins used in netsuke | Dieuwke Eijer | ||
Zuihitsu - Shells in prints | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
Őkyo's Skeleton not performed zazen. Reflections on the iconography of the Daijöji's kyakuden | Beatrice B. Shoemaker | ||
100 | December 2015 | Zuan pattern books. The glory years | Scott Johnson |
History of the Bulletin and Andon | Arendie Herwig-Kempers | ||
Imaging Andon. A conversation with graphic designer Robert Schaap | Inge Klompmakers (edited by Anna Beerens) | ||
101 | April 2016 | Unknown Japanese paintings in Scotland | Rosina Buckland |
Taira no Koremochi. A parody of a famous legend hidden in a 19th-century netsuke | Ton & Mies Becker | ||
Book review: Kimono. A modern history by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt | Anna Beerens | ||
Traces of Ink. The Collection of Modern Japanese Calligraphy at the National Gallery in Prague | Markéta Hánová | ||
What's Happening and What's New? (a) | |||
Book review: Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints edited by Kendall H. Brown | Marije Jansen | ||
The Wrangham sale, part five and part six | Jan Dees | ||
What's Happening and What's New? (b) | |||
A collector's life. Hendrick Lühl's passion for Osaka prints | Arendie Herwig-Kempers and Henk Herwig | ||
Frederick Stibbert, the man, his museum and his collection of Japanese arms, armour and art | Francesco Civita | ||
102 | October 2016 | On the mandalisation of space: a study of the Daijōji's kyakuden (part 1) | Beatrice B. Shoemaker |
What's Happening and What's New? (a) | |||
Zuihitsu: Rain | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
Satō Hodai's Haiku surimono. Images of the people of nineteenth-century Osaka | Scott Johnson | ||
What's Happening and What's New? (b) | |||
Book review: Waves of renewal - modern prints, 1900 to 1960 by Chris Uhlenbeck, Amy Reigle Newland and Maureen de Vries; Japan modern by Marije Jansen | Eric van den Ing | ||
Zeshin's Shijō surimono and his later shikishiban prints | Robert Schaap | ||
Printing rhythm and sound. Hanga and music in Onchi Kōshirō's Lyrique No. 2 | John Fiorillo | ||
Book review: A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography by Luke Gartlan | Herman J. Moeshart | ||
103 | April 2017 | Classical court poetry as didactic entertainment: Utagawa Kuniyoshi's Hyakunin isshu no uchi | Frank Witkam |
A pair of Kakiemon bijin at the Princessehof | Eline van den Berg | ||
Mameban nishiki-e. Diminutive colour prints from Kamigata | Peter Ujlaki and John Fiorillo | ||
What's Happening and What's New? | |||
Zuihitsu: 'Otherness'? | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
The woodblock print series of Keisai Eisen (1790 - 1848) | Glenn Van den Bosch | ||
Book review: A third gender - Beatiful youths in Japanese Edo-period prints by Joshua Mostow, Asato Ikeda and Ryoko Matsuba | C. Andrew Gerstle | ||
On the mandalisation of space: a study of the Daijōji's kyakuden (part 2) | Beatrice B. Shoemaker | ||
104 | November 2017 | The Joe Hloucha Collection of woodblock prints in the National Gallery in Praque | Jana Ryndová |
What's Happening & What's New | |||
Remorseless: Edward Sylvester Morse and changing tastes in Japanese ceramics | Beatrice B. Shoemaker | ||
Zuihitsu. New Year rituals in surimono | Marije Jansen | ||
Contemporary art in machiya | Lisanne Kleinjan | ||
Book review: Conflicts of Interest - Art and War in Modern Japan by Philip Hu et al. | Larisa Alwin | ||
Exhibition review: Super ukiyo-e: The Edo code. Kayabacho Ichome, Tokyo, January 28 - May 21, 2017 | Marije Jansen | ||
The art of Sekino Jun'ichirō: Expressive realism and geometric formalism | John Fiorillo | ||
105 | April 2018 | Utagawa Kunisada and the 'Copy & Paste' tradition | Robert Schaap |
News & Comments | |||
Talking Pictures. Actor, script and performance in 19th-century Kabuki prints | Paul M. Griffith | ||
Zuihitsu | Beatrice B. Shoemaker | ||
Kagekiyo in Miya. A multi-layered Tōkaidō puzzle print by Kunisada | Henk Herwig | ||
Book review: Domon Ken - The Master of Japanese Realism by Rossella Menegazzo et al. | Annemarie Zethof | ||
Eisen's serial graphics checklist. A selection of over one hundred and fifty series | |||
106 | December 2018 | Looking for foxes in Yoshino. Tanizaki Junichirō's visions of the Kansai past | Jos Vos |
The elusive Wasōbei | Dieuwke Eijer | ||
Book review: Contemporary Japanese Architects: Profiles in Design by Igarashi Tarō (translated by David Noble) | Max Put | ||
Islands of the imagination: Hokusai's Eight views of Ryūkyū | Travis Seifman | ||
Through the photographic lens: Japanese photographers visualising the triple disaster | Philo Ouweleen | ||
Zuihitsu: Hollandaiserie | Victor Schmidt | ||
What's Happening & What's New | |||
One hundred laughs? Kiyochika's Nihon banzai: hyakusen hyakushō | Larisa Alwin | ||
About 'Ōhashi': New perspectives and how I proved my theory wrong | Marije Jansen | ||
107 | April 2019 | Scholar's Utopia: Rethinking the display for sencha in the late Edo period | Ai Fukunaga |
News & Comments | |||
Transgender bodies in The funeral parade of roses | Asa Splinter | ||
Book review: ROSETSU - Ferocious brush by Matthew McKelway and Khanh Trinh | Doreen Mueller | ||
Suidoken revisited: The circulation and impact of Chinese editions in later Edo Japan (c. 1775 - 1868) | Frank Witkam | ||
Tea and immortality: The splendid reclusion of Ikeda Harumasa | Beatrice B. Shoemaker | ||
The development of Eisen's bijin-ga style in relation to the Utagawa actor-likeness prints | Sawako Takemura Chang | ||
Zuihitsu; Sasabeni lips | Marije Jansen | ||
108 | December 2019 | Performing female roles of the Floating World in Utamaro's Negai no itoguchi | Manuela Coldesina and Giulia Baquè |
Depicting No theatre: A brief history of Meiji No and Tsukioka Kōgyo's No aesthetics | Tina Dermois | ||
What's Happening & What's New | |||
Ten years of Nihon no hanga: An interview with Elise Wessels | Marije Jansen | ||
Book review: Miyazakiworld: A life in art by Susan Napier | Philo Ouweleen | ||
Zuihitsu: Lost in Translation | Beatrice B. Shoemaker | ||
Collecting and using Things Chinese in Medieval Japan: Archaistic bronze flower vases in the Chiossone Museum | Donatella Failla | ||
109 | June 2020 | Positive perceptions of Tokugawa rule in Meiji prints | Jim Dwinger |
Japan-o-mania and the legacy of Henry Cole | Rosemary Bandini | ||
What's Happening & What's New | |||
Saigyō and his poems in ukiyo-e and early-modern popular culture | Joshua S. Mostow | ||
Book review: Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism by Erin Schoneveld | Doreen Mueller | ||
Reflections of reality: Scenic 19th-century views of Nikkō | Frank Witkam | ||
Zuihitsu: Images and likeness: Some portraits of Baisaō | Victor M. Schmidt | ||
Kiyochika's war triptychs, fact or fantasy? | Larisa Alwin | ||
110 | December 2020 | The Great Wave: How to Identify Reproductions | Capucine Korenberg |
A Brief Note on Shikake-e Woodblock Prints | Oikawa Shigeru | ||
Celebrating the Good Life of the People of Japan: Yamaguchi Soken’s Yamato jinbutsu gafu | Ellis Tinios | ||
Japanese Woodblock-Printed Dioramas | Tony Cole, Robert Tauxe and Ann Herring | ||
Hayami Sōtatsu, Hayami-ryū and the Subtle Power of Tea | Beatrice B. Shoemaker | ||
The Osaka Actor Ichikawa Gyokuen: A Small-Time Player Has His Moment in the Spotlight | John Fiorillo | ||
Book review: Breaking Out of Tradition: Japanese Lacquer, 1890–1950 by Jan Dees | Julia Hutt | ||
111 | June 2021 | Albert Brockhaus (1855 - 1921) - Acquiring netsuke throughout Europe | Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz |
The Paradox of the 'Horror Comic': Conveying Fear in the Manga of Itō Junji | Michael Crandol | ||
Roger Keyes, dear friend | Israel Goldman | ||
Gakutei's Fine Views of Mount Tenpō - Celebrating Osaka's Newest Tourist Attraction in 1834 | Jack Quarrier | ||
From Local to National. Crafting the Identity of bashōfu in Japanese Okinawa | Francesco Montuori | ||
Book Review: Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Women's Life in Nineteenth Century Japan by Amy Stanley | Jim Dwinger | ||
112 | December 2021 | The Poetry of Play: Hybridity in Amusements of the four seasons in Kyoto | Pauline Ayumi Ota |
The Japanese Print as a Lens to Understanding Wright's Organic Space: The Miegakure Effect | Kenneth Dahlin | ||
His Master's Voice: Echoes of Kuniyoshi in Yoshiiku's Imayo nazorae Genji | André Kraayenga | ||
An intriguing work of Japanese calligraphy from the former Felix Tikotin collection in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | Hori Sakiko | ||
Book Review: Sixty Years with Japanese Prints by George Mann | John Fiorillo | ||
113 | July 2022 | Dressing up actors with oshi-e -- Colour patchwork pictures in Osaka | John Fiorillo |
Zenga: Paintings of the Zen Mind from the Kaeru-An Collection | Markéta Hánová | ||
How to determine the production chronology of a Japanese woodblock print | Capucine Korenberg | ||
Book review: Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation by Michaela Kelly | Aafke van Ewijk | ||
114 | December 2022 | Ōoka Shunboku: Osaka between China and Japan | Beatrice B. Shoemaker |
Magic and acrobatic tricks in misemono-e | John Fiorillo | ||
The structure and iconography of gigaku masks and implications for performance | Stephen Marvin | ||
Berend Modderman: A Benefactor of Japanese Art | Sakiko Hori | ||
Book Review: Kyosai: The Israel Goldman collection by Sadamura Koto | Shigeru Oikawa | ||
115 | July 2023 | The Kano School and the Longevity of its Brand | San Chan |
Memoirs from the Road: Yamanashi Shigako, Kii no Kuni meisho zue, and Women’s Pilgrimage to Mount Kōya | Sara Atwood | ||
Made to Deceive Three Lacquer Boxes by Sasaki Gakuto | Jan Dees | ||
Vermillion Designs: Seals as Textual Motifs in Ukiyo-e Prints by Utagawa Hiroshige | Jim Dwinger | ||
The Concept of Cultural Hybridity and its Application on Kengo Kuma’s Personhood and Architecture | Killian van der Kraan | ||
Book Review: Designing Modern Japan by Sarah Teasley | Leah Crews | ||
116 | December 2023 | The Benefits of Humanising Ghosts: The Demon Queller in the Popular Imagination in Early Modern China and Japan | Fan Lin and Doreen Mueller |
Clémence d'Ennery, her Museum and Japanese Objects | Akimichi Kazuko | ||
Kawanabe Kyōsai and Émile Guimet: Revisiting Guimet's Role as Kyōsai's Discoverer | Freya Terryn | ||
Book Review: Art Kimono: Aesthetic Revelations of Japan 1905 - 1960 by Roger Yorke, with a foreward by Kendall H. Brown | Rhiannon Paget | ||
117 | Summer 2024 | The Plum Blossom Valley at Tsukigase | Yurika Wakamatsu |
Rare Appearances: Bunraku Puppets in Osaka Prints | John Fiorillo | ||
Interpretations of Late Edo Prints on the Theme of Oiwa | Wojtek Doria Dernalowicz | ||
118 | November 2024 | A Novelist's Research into Ōi | Katherine Govier |
Generational Trauma: The Evolution of an Utagawa Canine Motif over the course of the Nineteenth Century | Kit Brooks | ||
A Silent Gaze: Visual Representations of Goze in Woodblock Prints | Saskia Goldschmid | ||
Book Review: Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750-1900 by Akiko Yano | Leah Crews |