Ukiyo-e Prints

浮世絵版画

Occasionally I run across a quote which stops me in my tracks.

For a long time I have been thinking that I should add a box here to share them with you.

Sometimes they come from books I agree with, sometimes not. Please keep that in mind.

FROM

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler

...The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood.

He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong

and harmful before it.

History has taught us that often lies serve her better than the truth;

for man is sluggish and has to be led through the desert for forty years

before each step in his development. And he has to be driven through

the desert with threats and promises, by imaginary terrors and imaginary

consolations, so that he should not sit down prematurely to rest and

divert himself by worshipping golden calves.

BAD BOYS

AND

THEIR TATTOOS

PLEASE CLICK ON THE SPYING BAD BOY EGGS BELOW TO GO TO OUR FIRST AND SECOND TATTOO PAGES.  PAGE ONE IS ON THE LEFT AND PAGE TWO IS ON THE RIGHT.

CLICK ON THE BAD BOY SPYING EGGS ABOVE TO GO TO THE FIRST TATTOO PAGE!

ABOVE IS A DETAIL OF

J.W.'S TATTOO

IN PROGRESS

PAGE TWO IS NOW BASICALLY

DEVOTED TO THE PROCESS.

CLICK ON THE DRAGON ABOVE

TO SEE WHAT WE MEAN.

CLICK ON THE BAD BOY SPYING EGGS ABOVE TO GO TO THE SECOND TATTOO PAGE!

CLICKING ON THE IMAGE ABOVE WILL TAKE YOU OUR BAD BOYS AND THEIR TATTOOS PAGE 3.

 OUR INTERACTIVE

INDEX/GLOSSARY PAGES

*****

CLICK ON CAMEL TO GO TO A THRU Bl, ETC.

A thru Ankō

Aoi thru Bl

Bo Thru Da

De thru Gen

Ges Thru Hic

Hil thru Hor

Hos thru I

J thru Kakure-gasa

Kakure-mino thru Kento

Kesa thru Kuruma

Kutsuwa thru Mok

Mom thru N

O thru Ri

Ro thru Seigle

Seikichi thru Sh

Si thru Tengai

Tengu thru Tsuzumi

U thru Yakata-bune

Yakusha thru Z

PUBLISHERS

CLICK ON THE GHOST LANTERN BELOW TO GO TO THE FIRST OF OUR FIVE PAGES DEVOTED TO PUBLISHERS' SEALS ORGANIZED BY THEIR SHAPES.

OR

CLICK ON ANY OF THE SEALS BELOW TO GO TO THEIR SPECIFIC PAGES.

PAGE TWO

IS ALPHABETICAL

A THRU G

(click seal below)

PAGE THREE

IS ALPHABETICAL

H THRU J

(click seal below)

PAGE FOUR

IS ALPHABETICAL

K THRU M

(click seal below)

PAGE FIVE

IS ALPHABETICAL

N TO Z

(click seal below)

SUPPLEMENTAL PAGE

WITH EXAMPLES OF SEALS

WE HAVE NOT OFFERED YET

(click on the ginko leaf below)

SOME OF

KUNIYOSHI'S

PUBLISHERS

(click on the composite head below)

NOTE THAT

on July 8, 2008 we divided "Kuniyoshi and His Publishers" into two separate pages because it was the largest and slowest loading on our site. Click on the green head below

to go to our new page.

It will definitely be worth your time and trouble.

SELECTED TOPICS

CLICK ON THE TITLES OR THE IMAGES TO GO TO THOSE SPECIFIC PAGES

LIGHTNING IN JAPANESE PRINTS

 LIONS & PEONIES

THE MANY USES

OF EBI

WHY PORT TOWNSEND?

CLICK ON THE PICTURE OF STICKY

  BELOW TO FIND OUT WHY.

HE WONDERS WHY YOU HAVEN'T VISITED YET.

(STICKY LEADS YOU TO OUR FIRST PAGE.  CLICKING ON THE VIEW OF DIABLO LAKE WILL TAKE YOU DIRECTLY TO THE SECOND PAGE.)

A FEW OF THE

ITEMS WHICH HAVE SOLD

CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW TO GO TO SPECIFIC PAGES

Click on the Hodo print

shown above to go to the first page 

of selected items which we have sold.

Click on the Kunisada print

shown above to go to the second page 

of selected items which we have sold.

Click on the Yoshitora print

shown above to go to the third page 

of selected items which we have sold.