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Great video, many thanks for the compression!

One of the greatest! On this note, would you make a video of Tsuruya Kokei? I think his actor prints have the same spirit as Sharaku’s!

Very interesting. As I was aware of works from people of Hiroshige's era I wondered why Hasui's art was so catchy to my eyes. With your side by side comparison I realized the values and contrasts are different in ukiyo-e to shin hanga. I was also not aware of the term 'shin hanga' so now I can look up more of that, thanks!

Thank you again!

Great video! I really wamt that vader print! 😍

I believe that Takumi has also done some Avengers prints in that same Yoshitoshi style as well.

I love the education I receive on this channel. Soon, I will buy some ukiyo e

Thanks Richard, nice video 👍 It really helps if you show how much comparable prints like the Hiroshige one has been sold in auctions already 😊

I have 2 Japanese wood block paintings that belonged to my grandparents. Nara Kofukuji Temple and Cherry Blossoms at the Shirakawa Castle. How do I go about authenticating and value?

I enjoy all of your ukiyo-e artist profiles. They are crisp and full of inspiring and beautifully composed examples of each artist's prints.

Great video :)

Great print 👍 I assume it is a later reprint and not an original since the condition is so mint right?

Thanks Richard 👍

amazing

yess! with little lick and knowledge is still possible to get hiroshige originals have few one from you and other were a luck in ebay, a real luck etc state...mmmm...think depends what you admitt as good ...to be honest the colours of original must be a bit discolored because even kept the chemical reactions in paper etc tend to light colours in time,- etc the same in all antiques of course etc congratulations and thanks for sharing, btw ....happy birhday!

hello and thank you for the video, it certainly opened a few options for me. how these frames perform with direct sunlight?

Nice! And yes, you are correct, it is still possible to buy original (old) prints that are affordable and in better condition than in well known museum collections, have some myself, because so many prints were made.

Excellent information, thank you so much! I have only bought woodblock prints two times (nine pieces, in total), back in 2012, from Fuji Arts. I only wanted a small amount of prints to display in different parts of my home. I bought an assortment of pieces from Meiji/Edo era to modern times...all were exactly as described. Fuji Arts is a great and trusted company to buy from, indeed!

WOW!!! I mentioned in another comment on your Chikanobu video that I own one of his prints on Tsunayoshi! I too was born in the 'Year of the Dog' and have always been a protector of dogs (and all animals). Once, when I was visiting family in Panama, while waiting for a train to arrive, I witnessed several men being abusive to a stray dog...I immediately jumped up and ran to the men and scolded them!!!

Amazing information, thank you! I own one of his original prints, 'Tsunayoshi,' from the series, 'A Brief Account of the Tokugawa Lineage.' Description: 'Handsome scene from the life of the Tsunayoshi, the fifth Tokugawa shogun. A beauty waits at the garden gate as a young girl greets her with a lantern, gesturing towards the house where the Shogun Tsunayoshi is issuing the "Shorui Awaremi no Rei" or Edicts on Compassion for Living Things, which prevented dogs from being killed. This act earned him the title the "Dog Shogun." The beauty smiles slyly as she tilts her head, dressed in a blue kimono bordered with flowers and grasses. A large cherry tree blooms in the courtyard overlooking a lake, with stepping stones and a lantern on a pole.'

The reason why boys can't do it cuz us girls are throat goats

I read somewhere that full body tattoos were adopted by firemen in Japan way before Yakuza, and for quite a practical, yet gruesome reason - so their corpses could be identified in case they die and burn badly in a fire, which (I'd guess) was quite a common occurrence at the time.

So cool, those prints are awesome! It’s like seeing the first graphic novels. It makes me want to see a series walking us through the full series of prints that tell an entire story. Also I’m looking forward to the Halloween themed content if it’s in the cards this year. I love to see horror themed prints!

I freely admit that I got really excited to see that this was another unboxing post, it has, indeed, been awhile (but just in the nick of time!)… I have to say that I greatly prefer the work of Hiroshige II (and consider him the true and worthy successor to his father-in-law!), than Hiroshige III, who not only focused on that painful “Meji Era,” with its black smoking trains, and steamships, and European fashions, and, perhaps worst of all, Europeans (and, of course, Americans!), but also sort of “phoned it in,” as an artist and print designer (but then, what should we expect from an obvious self-promoting huckster and a wife stealer?… Ooh, and ain’t I just the Ukiyo-e gossip?)… A Mie Gallery overview of Kobayashi Kiyochika would be exceedingly welcome! He is an artist that I find grievously under-represented in the various reference books and iconographies, but I just fell in love with the little black and white sample in Munsterberg’s “The Japanese Print”(which I expect you own a copy of), a more “genre” print, but highly evocative! Finally, those three collaborative prints at the end were amazing, and I understand and applaud your consideration of amassing a collection of those prints, challenging as it might seem! Also, an in depth look at Mie Gallery (who, what, where, when, etc.), would be great fun, although perhaps you’ve done that before, and if so, please let me know… I been a bit busy lately trying to make the world safe for old school undigitally processed music and childless cat ladies (we’re getting there!)… I glimpsed another Mie Gallery unboxing post just ahead in the feed, gotta run…

Another great unboxing! Always appreciated. Arigato!

Thank you sir.

Fun fact. Printing backgrounds with mica was a technique lost (most likely banned) for over a century. Watanabe/Ito Shinsui tried and failed painting on mica (first state of "Spring", 1917). Hashiguchi Goyo, a ukyio-e fanatic, tried painting on glue and then dusting on mica and succeeded ("Woman applying makeup", 1918).

Hey, I really want to watch a kabuki play. What are some good resources to watch a full kabuki play? (Also, LOVING the this channel and these videos. I do Japanese style tattooing as my job and have found learning about the mythology hard to find the resources in English and explained so well. Thank you!)

would like to comment that early hokusai drawings-prints after being expulsed from his master sunsho, looks exactly like late entire body of so called sharaku prints then we twnd to share a romantic view of context etc yes old secrecy even today we can only guess and not only in japan hings but many othrd but who knows' ?? just an opiniom maybe I m wrong etc but see context etc

excelent video..! congratulations! already commented in fb my theory as favourite considering the context the publisher was punished for printing humouristic prints about that shogun was bankrupt so he needed a new style to get up..unfortunately did not work as sharaku prints but eventually he rised again etc yes! loove mica things in prints! already in a video of printmaking a printer put a kind of second mould carving exactly on the print just to put the mica and, there are different shades from silvery grey to golden to rosy to nacar colour... etc....

Thank you for your videos!

Thank you as always Richard 🙏🙏

He is my favorite

How intriguing! Thanks a lot for a wonderful video 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💕💕💕

Amazing thank you!

Great work sir.

Thank you for this.

Excellent review, thank you.

A video about the important ukiyo-e publishers would be an interesting idea.

Wonderful collection of books and great recommendations. There's so much scholarly material on ukiyo-e prints now than twenty or thirty years ago. I remember being elated when the Kunichika book was published and that was back in the late 90s. We're spoiled for choice now.

with Lithograph art prints are they good in Acrylic frames? my first time buying are and learning everything I can. I know I have to get non acid frames

The cream rises to the surface with respect to print books i.e. the good books appreciate in price. Catalogues raisonnes for example have appreciated 5X or even 10X in price in only a few years. The catch however is not really being able to sell these because the info they contain is mostly not available elsewhere and so these books are far more valuable to keep.

Love your posts, Mie Gallery! Here are 4 books that I can’t help but recommend: “Worldly Pleasures, Earthly Delights” (Japanese Prints from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts), 2011, Matthew Welch and Yuiko Kimura-Tilford, which has become my essential “go to” for all things related to Japanese prints, a truly gorgeous book! I believe I paid $60 in 2012, and a huge bargain at that! The dust jacket alone (a detail from a print by Torii Kiyonaga) has given me way more than that in “Earthly Delight”… Another great book that I purchased a few years back secondhand, is “Ukiyo-e, 250 Years Of Japanese Art” by Roni Neuer and Suzuki Yoshida, 1979, Mayflower Books (originally published in Italian!). Like the previous volume, a quite beautiful and very encyclopedic approach to the subject that possesses us so thoroughly! Probably out of print, it was also priced originally at $60, and the used bookstore that I purchased it from quite fairly asked that amount (although I was able to obtain a ten dollar discount, as a “frequent flyer”), but if you can obtain a copy at any amount closely plus or minus $100, I think you’ll be able to sleep nights… “Japanese Prints” by Gabriele Fahr-Becker, 1999, Taschen (Where would art lovers be without Taschen? Most certainly at a severe disadvantage!)… mostly full color illustrations and a very knowledgeable text, a much more concise overview than the two books cited previously, but still well worth having, and since it’s Taschen, almost certainly still available… Finally, if one was trying to seduce someone with the wonderful magic and subtlety of woodblock prints, I think you would be hard pressed to do better “Japan Journeys, Famous Woodblock Prints of Cultural Sights in Japan” by Andreas Marks, 2015, Tuttle Publishing… This little volume (168 pages) is so very well written, and the full color selections of illustrations are so well coordinated that I can offer no serious criticism (except perhaps for the inclusion of numerous prints from the Meji era, although that is definitely my jag, as I am certain there are collectors who specialize in this period, whose only possible error is in not being me!)… When I first started getting into collecting Ukiyo-e, I actually had the opportunity to meet Dr. Marks at the MIA, and at the time I had no idea how much more I had to learn about the subject, and if I ever get another such opportunity, I will be a seriously apologetic “humble Tigger,” as I meekly ask him to autograph my copy of “Japan Journeys”… By the way, I saw Dr. Marks on a roundtable zoom type Ukiyo-e discussion somewhere on RUclips (sorry, I forget who hosted it… Boston University perhaps?), and the good doctor was not at all tepid in excoriating those who use the incorrect name “Ando Hiroshige,” and quite insistent that the correct nomenclature had to be “Utagawa Hiroshige,” and while I know that Hiroshige is not your primary area of collecting these “Earthly Delights,” I did happen to notice in passing that you used the “Ando” designation (as have so many others!), and, except for the very earliest period of his oeuvre, before graduating the Utagawa school, any other designation is incorrect. Dr. Marks was emphatic and adamant on this point… I really do enjoy your always exceptional work… don’t stop on my account! - Best always, Glenn Jones (Minneapolis)

thanks for sharing..! well have the andreas marks in digital in docs got free the hokusai sangurokkei book...excellent! well exist 2 versions of original and repro-reprint 1913 it seems ehon japanese- have few sheets etc the taschen edit you dont have? of 100 views of edo is a marvel! out of existence by today had to conform with a mini edition pff! yes if you ever find a nice book please sell me here in mexico its almost impossible you know... congratulations! p.s. exist another oldie book 250 years of ukiyo-e by a guy that manages ronin gallery ny usa its from 1990s a big 5 kg book all in colour and covers at least one of almost all japan artist.. obviously out of print but got my book from an estate sell used , and in pristine state etc just for hihi... 10 usd hehehe...in 2019 heeee..!

Recently purchased book, British Museum research publication 231, Late Hokusai: Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy. Edited by Timothy Clark. Must read for Hokusai (and other Ukiyo-e) collectors, great research. Thanks, nice video topic.

By the way, when I was living in London, I had the fortune to go to the exhibition The Great Picture Book of Everything by Hokusai at the British Museum. It was wonderful 😊

Love your video! Thanks a lot. I just bought one book which you recommended in one of your recent videos, Staging the Supernatural, I love it! ❤

2:40 the 30 dollar taschen book is the smaller 6" x 8.5" edition of the same material from the giant edition. Both are great though!

how influential was ukiyoe on the art of tattoos? were there any ukiyoe artist who also did tattoos?

Good video! Thanks for the recommendations.