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

Group Portrait with Lady

by Heinrich Böll

...The experiment worked: Leni learned to read music, laboriously, resisting it,

- and since Sister Cecilia was receiving from Leni's father a substantial  special fee

that flowed into the coffers of the Order, she felt she 'really must teach Leni something.'

She succeeded, and: 'The thing I admired about her was: She grasped at once that

Schubert was her limit - attempts to go beyond that failed so miserably that even I

advised her to keep within her limitations, in spite of her father's insistence that

she learn to play Mozart, Beethoven, and all those.' "

NOW ONE FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE

Wittgenstein's Poker

by David Edmonds and John Eidinow

But first an explanation:

One of Wittgenstein's students was more amused by his

teacher's cruder aphorisms than his profoundly deep ones.

"Don't try and shit higher than your arse" which Wittgenstein applied to

philosophers like Popper who thought they could change the world.

AND YET A THIRD QUOTE FROM

"A Japanese Burlesque: Nise Monogatari"

by Jack Rucinski

If the translation of a work from Japanese to English is difficult,

the translation of a work plus its parody is, at least, doubly so.

Needless to say a pun in Japanese does not necessarily lend itself to one in English.

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

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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.