Stories From Old Japan is a simple animation system that allows students to create stories using the characters and backgrounds of the Pictures of the Floating World.
Natori Shunsen
Japanese 1886–1960
The actor Nakamura Ganjiro
from the Collection of Shunsen portraits series,
1925, Tokyo, Japan
colour woodblock
38.2 x 26.0 cm (image)
Purchased, 1993
Pictures of the Floating World
Japanese Prints from the Collection
22 April to 2 October 2005
Admission free
Ukiyo-e (uki - floating, yo - world, e - pictures), literally, pictures of the floating world, was applied to the popular arts of painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books that depicted life in the great urban centres of Japan in the Tokugawa period (1615 – 1888). This exhibition will present more than a hundred Japanese woodblock prints depicting subjects that include; beautiful women (Bijin-ga), actors of the Kabuki Theatre, landscapes and Samurai Warriors. Also included in the exhibition will be the preparatory ink drawings, tools and examples explaining the different stages of the woodblock printing process.
Products inspired by this exhibition include the room
brochure, a special card pack, and an interactive
CD-ROM exploring the artists and their work.
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