Tom Aspden 🐀

Historian, bleb boet, and ukiyo-e collector

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@barryharryy @faaafv This is so sad to hear, he was such a great figure in so many of the yogs' communities, sending hugs and thought to everyone ❤️

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@barryharryy @jinglejam @theCALMzone It makes me very happy to be part of a community that is so willing to donate to such a good cause. I hope the blebs never change!

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@MarchnBones What a QT

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Like so many others, I took am on blue sky now - thomaspden. Etc etc.

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@SquidGaming Hastings is just such a handsome cat, with his half moustache

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Setsu Province from the series Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers (Furyu mu Tamagawa), published by Izumiya Ichibei, c. 1804.

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New arrival: I think a very early design by Kikugawa Eizan, depicting the courtesan Shigetada (?) Of the Okamoto house, c. 1805/6.

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Manage to rig up some white lighting to take this tonight: Utagawa Kunihisa (possibly a female), student of Toyokuni I, depicting Onoe Matsusuke I as the ghost of the wet-nurse Iohata, 1804.

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@Zinoba_ It is! It's not even an unkind depiction, it's fairly realistic, given the artistic style of the time

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A very unique print here: Utagawa Toyokuni II, a girl or young woman presumably with downs syndrome with another older lady being surprised by a firework on the floor. Published by Yamaguchia Tobei c. 1830

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@fakehistoryhunt I saw one of these in an antique shop once. If have bought it if it wasn't £185

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Formerly in the collection or shop of French artist and collector Paul Blondeau

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Arrived today, Katsukawa Shunko, Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Shirabyoshi dancer, circa 1780.

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@Doog150 Hang Chatting

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My interesting print: attributed to Okumura Masanobu, a man playing a shamisen in his house, while two women and a young attendant approach, possibly c. 1720s.

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@Doog150 I file away 15 %, eat 50% and hand the rest yepp

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@boba_witch Teefs

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Miniature Ohara Koson, three birds on a maple, published by The Matsumoto Do Tokyo, c. 1910.

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A few photographs from last night's northern lights from my holiday in Scotland!