Deidre Tourville

art come to life · 浮世絵
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1896, Beauty of the Enpō Era, from the series Flower Patterns, by Kobayashi Kiyochika. This Meiji-period color woodblock triptych looks back to the Enpō era (1673–1681),…

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@akha_farmville on a scale of 1-10 how fast did you save this

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@1981cake me at 2am knowing i have to wake up at 6:

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Arashiyama (1890), by Yōshū Chikanobu, is a Meiji-period color woodblock print from the series Gentō shashin kurabe(Daydreams by Magic Lantern).…

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@cigsandberries_ i didn't realize it was on a loop until the 4th time

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@MildredMenino The vibes are simply immaculate today...

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Tsuchigumo (The Earth Spider), a dynamic color woodblock print designed by Yōshū Chikanobu in 1881, serves as a vivid historical documentation of a traditional Kabuki theater performance at Tokyo’s Shintomiza theater.…

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@rlozlo5xxi ok but what's the name of this song i need it immediately...

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This late 19th-century Japanese color woodblock print, titled "Spider Monster" (Tsuchigumo), was created around 1880 by the Meiji-era artist Morikawa Chikashige. A student of the famed master Toyohara Kunichika, Chikashige specialized in yakusha-e (actor portraits).…

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@CarlosKarauh Me every single day pretending I have my life together:

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This 1899 color lithograph, titled “Introduction” and created by an anonymous Japanese artist, is one of the primary historical illustrations published directly inside J. E. De Becker’s seminal sociological book, “The Nightless City: Or The History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku”.…

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@JanausBurnette @PDXArtsTax ok i need someone to explain what happened at 0:15

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Designed by the master artist Toyohara Kunichika during the late Edo to early Meiji period, this original color woodblock print triptych, titled “A Lively Scene of Kabuki Theater Actors” (ca.…

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Kabuki Stage Scene, designed by the master woodblock printmaker Utagawa Kunisada in approximately 1852, is a vibrant ōban triptych showcasing a dynamic theatrical performance from a kabuki production adapted from the classical Noh play Shakkyō (The Stone Bridge).…

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Created in 1824 by the renowned ukiyo-e master Keisai Eisen, Rejected Geisha from Passions Cooled by Springtime Snow is a striking woodblock print that exemplifies the bijin-ga (beautiful women) genre of Japan’s Edo period.…