This fascinating publication showcases the Saint Louis Art Museum's collection of Japanese military prints and related materials―one of the largest collections of such works in the world. The 1,400 objects in the collection are mostly color woodblock prints, but the holdings also include paintings, lithographs, photographs, stereographs, books, magazines, maps, game boards, textiles, ceramics, toys, sketchbooks, and commemorative materials. This extraordinary body of visual works chronicles Japan's rise as a modern nation from the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868 through the aftermath of Pearl Harbor in 1942, with a focus on the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars. Conflicts of Interest will bring to light an important aspect of Japan's visual culture and the narratives it circulated for its citizens, allies, and enemies on the world stage.

Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan

Arts & Photography

Marks, Andreas

Paget, Rhiannon

Dobson, Sebastian

Hu,Philip

Kaneko, Maki

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

* Highlights early works, including several never-before published* First comprehensive, scholarly publication on Sait&#333; Kiyoshi in English* Important artist in the history of postwar U.S.-Japan relations* Masterful designs that capture essence of mid-century modern tasteThis catalog is the first comprehensive, scholarly publication on the Japanese print artist Saito Kiyoshi to be published in English and accompanies the first major exhibition of his work in the United States since his death. Saito was a central member of Japan's creative print (sosaku hanga) movement, and one of the best known and most popular modern Japanese artists in the United States. His work is appreciated for his refined sense of design and active use of woodgrain. The fully-illustrated book includes thematic essays, illustrations demonstrating Saito's technique, discussion of seals and signatures, chronology, and bibliography.

Saito Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening

Individual Artists

Scala

A stunning introduction to the history of Japanese printmaking, with highlights from the de Young museum's vast collectionIn 1868, Japan underwent a dramatic transformation following the overthrow of the shogun by supporters of Emperor Meiji, marking the end of feudal military rule and ushering in a new era of government that promoted modernizing the country and interacting with other nations.Japanese print culture, which had flourished for more than a century with the production of color woodcuts (the so-called ukiyo-e, or "floating world" images), also changed course during the Meiji era (1868-1912), as societal changes and the once-isolationist country's new global engagement provided a wealth of new subjects for artists to capture. Featuring selections from the renowned Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts' permanent collection, Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World documents the shift from delicately colored ukiyo-e depictions of actors, courtesans, and scenic views to brightly colored images of Western architecture, modern military warfare, technology (railroad trains, steam-powered ships, telegraph lines), and Victorian fashions and customs.

Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World

Breuer, Karin

Abrams Books

The Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travelers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaidō journey. After producing 24 prints, Eisen was replaced by Utagawa Hiroshige, who completed the series of 70 prints in 1838.
Both Eisen and Hiroshige were master print practitioners. In The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō, we find the artists’ distinct styles as much as their shared expertise. From the busy starting post of Nihonbashi to the castle town of Iwamurata, Eisen opts for a more muted palette but excels in figuration, particularly of glamorous women, and relishes snapshots of activity along the route, from shoeing a horse to winnowing rice. Hiroshige demonstrates his mastery of landscape with grandiose and evocative scenes, whether it’s the peaceful banks of the Ota River, the forbidding Wada Pass, or a moonlit ascent between Yawata and Mochizuki.
Taken as a whole, The Sixty-Nine Stations collection represents not only a masterpiece of woodblock practice, including bold compositions and an experimental use of color, but also a charming tapestry of 19th-century Japan, long before the specter of industrialization. This TASCHEN XXL edition revives the series with due scale and splendor. Sourced from the only-known set of a near-complete run of the first edition of the series, this legendary publication is reproduced in optimum quality, bound in the Japanese tradition and with uncut paper. A perfect companion piece to TASCHEN’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, it is at once a visual delight and a major artifact from the bygone era of Imperial Japan.

Hiroshige & Eisen: The Sixty-Nine Stations Along the Kisokaido / Die neunundsechzig Sationen des Kisokaido / Les soixante-neuf stations de la route Kissokaido

Taschen America, LLC

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760–1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of prints, illustrations, paintings, and beyond forms one of the most comprehensive oeuvres of ukiyo-e art and a benchmark of japonisme. His influence spread through Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and beyond, enrapturing the likes of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh.
Hokusai was always a man on the move. He changed domicile more than 90 times during his lifetime and changed his own name through over 30 pseudonyms. In his art, he adopted the same restlessness, covering the complete spectrum of Japanese ukiyo-e,“pictures of the floating world”, from single-sheet prints of landscapes and actors to erotic books. In addition, he created album prints, illustrations for verse anthologies and historical novels, and surimono, which were privately issued prints for special occasions.
Hokusai’s print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, published between c. 1830 and 1834 is the artist’s most renowned work and, with its soaring peak through different seasons and from different vantage points, marked the towering summit of the Japanese landscape print. The series’ Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known simply as The Great Wave, is one of the most recognized images of Japanese art in the world.
This TASCHEN introduction spans the length and breadth of Hokusai’s career with key pieces from his far-reaching portfolio. Through these meticulous, majestic works and series, we trace the variety of Hokusai’s subjects, from erotic books to historical novels, and the evolution of his vivid formalism and decisive delineation of space through color and line that would go on to liberate Western art from the constraints of its one-point perspective and unleash the modernist momentum.

Hokusai: 1760-1849

Découvrez l’artiste dont la majestueuse déferlante a provoqué des ondes de choc dans le monde entier. Hokusai (1760-1849) n’est pas seulement un géant de l’art japonais et une figure légendaire de l’époque Edo, il est aussi un père fondateur du modernisme occidental, dont la prolifique production d’illustrations, de peintures et de gravures, entre autres médiums, compose une des œuvres les plus globales de l’art ukiyo-e et une référence en termes de japonisme. Son influence s’est étendue à l’impressionnisme, à l’Art nouveau et au-delà. Il fascina de grands artistes comme Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt et Vincent van Gogh. 
Hokusai a toujours été un homme en mouvement. Il a déménagé plus de 90 fois au cours de sa vie et changé jusqu’à son nom en prenant au moins trente pseudonymes pour son travail. Dans son art, il adopte la même fébrilité, et couvre tout le spectre de l’ukiyo-e japonais ces «image du monde flottant». Il a realisé aussi bien des estampes de paysages ou d’acteurs de kabuki que des livres érotiques, des albums de gravures et des illustrations pour des anthologies de poésie ou des romans historiques, ainsi que des surimono, ces gravures imprimées à titre privé pour des occasions particulières. 
La série d’estampes de Hokusai intitulée Trente-six Vues du mont Fuji, publiée entre 1830 et 1834, est son œuvre la plus réputée, marquant l’apogée de l’estampe japonaise de paysage par ses représentations successives de l’illustre montagne à différentes saisons et sous de multiples points de vue. La série Sous la vague au large de Kanagawa, également connue sous le titre La Grande Vague, est l’une des images de l’art japonais les plus connues au monde. 
Cette introduction publiée par TASCHEN traite de la carrière de Hokusai dans toute sa durée et son ampleur, au gré d’œuvres clés extraites de son riche portfolio. Au fil des images et des séries aussi minutieuses que majestueuses se révèlent la variété des sujets abordés par Hokusai, depuis les livres érotiques jusqu’aux romans historiques, l’évolution de son formalisme foisonnant et sa manière novatrice de délimiter l’espace par les couleurs et les lignes, qui libéreront l’art occidental des contraintes de la perspective centrale et lanceront le modernisme.\nÀ propos de la collection 
Chaque volume de la Basic Art Series de TASCHEN contient: 
une chronologique détaillée de la vie et de l'œuvre de l'artiste qui rend compte de son importance culturelle et artistique 
une biographie concise 
une centaine d'illustrations couleur accompagnées de légendes explicatives

Hokusai: 1760 - 1849

The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travelers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaido journey. After producing 24 prints, Eisen was replaced by Utagawa Hiroshige, who completed the series of 70 prints in 1838. Both Eisen and Hiroshige were master print practitioners. In The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido, we find the artists' distinct styles as much as their shared expertise. From the busy starting post of Nihonbashi to the castle town of Iwamurata, Eisen opts for a more muted palette but excels in figuration, particularly of glamorous women, and relishes snapshots of activity along the route, from shoeing a horse to winnowing rice. Hiroshige demonstrates his mastery of landscape with grandiose and evocative scenes, whether it's the peaceful banks of the Ota River, the forbidding Wada Pass, or a moonlit ascent between Yawata and Mochizuki. Taken as a whole, The Sixty-Nine Stations collection represents not only a masterpiece of woodblock practice, including bold compositions and an experimental use of color, but also a charming tapestry of 19th-century Japan, long before the specter of industrialization. This TASCHEN XXL edition revives the series with due scale and splendor. Sourced from the only-known set of a near-complete run of the first edition of the series, this legendary publication is reproduced in optimum quality, bound in the Japanese tradition and with uncut paper. A perfect companion piece to TASCHEN's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, it is at once a visual delight and a major artifact from the bygone era of Imperial Japan.

Hiroshige & Eisen. the Sixty-nine Stations Along the Kisokaido

The Kisokaid&#333; route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travelers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaid&#333; journey. After producing 24 prints, Eisen was replaced by Utagawa Hiroshige, who completed the series of 70 prints in 1838. Both Eisen and Hiroshige were master print practitioners. In The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaid&#333;, we find the artists' distinct styles as much as their shared expertise. From the busy starting post of Nihonbashi to the castle town of Iwamurata, Eisen opts for a more muted palette but excels in figuration, particularly of glamorous women, and relishes snapshots of activity along the route, from shoeing a horse to winnowing rice. Hiroshige demonstrates his mastery of landscape with grandiose and evocative scenes, whether it's the peaceful banks of the Ota River, the forbidding Wada Pass, or a moonlit ascent between Yawata and Mochizuki. Taken as a whole, The Sixty-Nine Stations collection represents not only a masterpiece of woodblock practice, including bold compositions and an experimental use of color, but also a charming tapestry of 19th-century Japan, long before the specter of industrialization. This TASCHEN volume is sourced from one of the finest surviving first editions and revives the series in our compact anniversary edition.

Hiroshige & Eisen. the Sixty-nine Stations Along the Kisokaido.

TASCHEN

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From Hello Kitty to Maneki Neko--Japan is the epicentre of global cat culture! Whether lurking in corners or taking center stage, cats are a ubiquitous presence in Japanese art. Depending on the situation, they may invite good fortune, prompt the viewer to meditate on a tale or provide evidence of an unseen world of magic and supernatural happenings. In 200 charming woodblock prints, paintings, screens and figurines spanning three centuries, Japanese art expert Rhiannon Paget celebrates the rich symbolism and surprising stories surrounding the feline image in Japan. This collection features works from over 30 museums and institions across the world, and contains essays on the following fascinating topics: <ul> <li>Domestic Companion or Household God? Japanese artists represent the great affection and sense of pride which bonds cat owners to their pets</li> <li>The Feline Muse: Feline figures as ideal subjects for artists to explore in fluid lines and organic forms, their glossy fur and markings lending themselves to the interplay of textures and materials</li> <li>Lucky Cats: Auspicious creatures in Japanese culture, symbolizing health, longevity and prosperity</li> <li>Mischief and Mayhem: Japan's rich visual record of cats as witches and feline monsters</li> <li>Philosophers' Cats, Teachers' Pets and Moggies with Messages: The felines deployed to illustrate philosophical and religious ideas, and as conveyors of folk wisdom</li> <li>Plus much more!</li> </ul> This delightful book will appeal to anyone with an interest in Japanese art and culture, plus of course to all cat lovers!

Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art: with over 200 illustrations

Graphic Design

Tuttle+publishing

Hiroshige: Nature and the City (Alan Medaugh Collection)

Carpenter, John

Ludion Publishers

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