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 Ukiyo-e Prints

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Ukiyo-e Prints is evolving. Please return frequently to see what's been added!

            

OUR WEBSITE HAS BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS LATELY.

TO SAY THAT IT HAS BEEN DISTRESSED MIGHT BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH US. WE ARE DOING OUR BEST TO  CORRECT THINGS.

 

OUR NEWEST ADDITION 

is a

TORAJI

 

CLICK ON THE IMAGE

TO GO TO THE PAGE

DEVOTED TO THIS KEY BLOCK PRINT

If you looked at this page right after we posted it look again. We added considerably to it later that day.

SOLD!

 

Ukiyo-e Prints is primarily a commercial site. A friend once asked how he could find out which prints are for sale.

He said: "Am I stupid?" I think he meant it rhetorically, but I answered him anyway.

 

Below you will find links to all of the prints offered for sale!

   

 

PRINTS ON SALE AT REDUCED PRICES!

 

TO SEE ALL OF THE PRINTS

NOW OFFERED AT LOWERED PRICES

CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW

 

TOYOKUNI II

ORIGINALLY PRICED AT $680.00

NOW ON SALE FOR $470.00

Don't forget there will be a postal fee too.

 

  

 

3 PAGES OF CLICKABLE THUMBNAILS

OF

PRINTS FOR SALE

 

 

CLICK HERE TO GO TO

ANONYMOUS

thru

 KUNICHIKA

CLICK HERE TO GO TO

KUNISADA

thru

TOYOKUNI II

CLICK HERE TO GO TO

TOYOKUNI III

thru

YOSHITOSHI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THERE ARE MANY PAGES MEANT JUST FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT AND EDIFICATION.

THERE IS A LARGE SET OF  INDEX/GLOSSARY PAGES IN AN EVER GROWING LIST PLUS COMMENTARIES ON "LIGHTNING IN JAPANESE PRINTS", "LIONS AND PEONIES", TATTOOS AND SEVERAL PAGES DEVOTED TO PUBLISHERS AND THEIR MARKS.

 

 CLICK

ON THE IMAGE OF THE HIROSHIGE GATEWAY ABOVE TO GO TO A PAGE LINKING TO ALL OF THOSE PAGES AND MORE...

 

 

  

GALLERY THUMBNAIL PAGES OF PRINTS FOR SALE
T1 KUNISADA II, KUNITSUNA, SADAHIDE, SADAKAGE, TOYOKUNI II
T2 EISEN (2), GENGYO (2), SHUNTEI (2) 
T3 ALL OSAKA PRINTS   ASHIYUKI, HIRONOBU, HIROSADA, YOSHIKUNI, YOSHITAKI
T4 ANONYMOUS MEIJI, KUNICHIKA (2), NOBUKAZU, YOSHIKAZU   
T5 NOW ALL TOYOKUNI I ALL TOYOKUNI I
T6 (vertical diptychs) TOYOKUNI III ONE ON HOLD!
T7 (triptychs) KUNICHIKA (2)  ONE SOLD!
T8   ONLY ONE YOSHIIKU
T9 ALL YOSHITOSHI
T10

ALL KUNIYOSHI

T11 ALL KUNISADA These prints include only those printed before ca. 1842-44 and signed Kunisada.  See our Toyokuni III page for other examples by this artist.

T12 ALL 20TH CENTURY

KOKEI, KOSON (2), YOSHIDA

T13   ALL TOYOKUNI III  TWO SOLD!

   

            

EACH MONTH WE ADD MARKERS TO

INDICATE RECENT ADDITIONS OF BOTH TEXT AND/OR IMAGERY

 

CLICK ON THOSE MARKERS BELOW TO GO TO OUR NEW

"LINKS TO REVISED AND UPDATED PAGES".

THAT PAGE WILL HAVE LINKS TO SPECIFIC PAGES.

 

THE STALKS OF THE EQUISETUM HYMALE OR

COMMON HORSETAIL PLANT IS THE

MARKER FOR ADDITIONS MADE IN AUGUST 2008.

THE BIRD ON THE WALNUT SHELL WAS USED IN JULY.

THE GOLD COIN JUNE AND THE RED CHRYSANTHEMUM IN MAY.

 

 

On 8/5/08 we added comments about hondawara, a type of seaweed both eaten and used as a New Year's decoration.

This can be found on our Hil thru Hor index/glossary page.

 

On 8/4/08 we added a comment about the use of persimmon to dye cloth and who traditionally would have worn such a color.

This can be found under out kaki shibu entry on our J thru Kakuregasa index/glossary page.

 

On 8/4/08 we added a new publisher's seal for Izu-San.

This can be found on three of our pages devoted to such things.

Publishers' seals

Publishers H thru J

Kuniyoshi and his publishers - page 2

 

On 8/4/08 we added two images to our entry on nurude or the sumac tree, the galls of which

were used for tooth blackening. This entry can be found on our Mom thru N index/glossary page.

 

On 8/3/08 I found the oldest reference to an armrest in Japanese literature. It was surprising - to me at least.

It can be found under our entry for kyōsoku on our Kutsuwa thru Mok index/glossary page.

 

On 8/3/08 we updated our entry on kai awase on our J thru Kakuregasa index/glossary page.

 

On 8/3/08 we added another hoshi-ami or fishnet motif graphic to our Hos thru I index/glossary page.

 

On 8/3/08 we added a new information and two new graphics on hōkaburi or the cloth worn over the head and tied under the neck.

You can find this at our Hil thru Hor index/glossary page.

 

On 8/2/08 we added a new graphic for dried bonito wreaths on our Kakuremin thru Ken'yakurei index/glossary page.

You can find it under the term katsuobushi.

 

On 8/2/08 we added a comment on the risks involved for Japanese women if they were to have sex with men from the West.

We put this under our entry for Amerindians on our first index/glossary page.

 

On 8/2/08 we added comments on the chō or butterfly motif on our Bo thru Da index/glossary page.

 

On 8/2/08 we added graphics and information about the Ageha no chō or Citrus swallowtail butterfly

on our first index/glossary page.

 

 

 

    

Our Internet site was 5 years old on January 24, 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS

PLEASE CONTACT US AT

 

jv@printsofjapan.com

 

WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.

 

 

 

 

                   

       

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jerry Vegder

23 Grant St. #A4

Port Townsend, Washington 98368-3072

Phone: 360-379-1641