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Suwa Kanenori
Suwa Kanenori (1897–1932) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print artist associated with the sōsaku hanga ("creative print") movement. Born 1897, he spent his youth in Kobe, and started printing from the age of sixteen. In 1914 he moved to Tokyo to study at the Hongo Painting Institute. From 1920 his prints appeared in ''Yomigaeri'' magazine, which brought him to the attention of Un'ichi Hiratsuka, one of the leaders of sōsaku hanga movement, and Fukazawa Sakuichi whom he tutored in the craft. In 1921 he exhibited with the Sosaku Hanga Kyokai and in 1923 released his set of prints ''Suwa Kanenori surie awase'' (roughly translated as "Grinding the rough edges"). He became a member of the Nippon Sosaku Hanga Kyokai in 1928 and participated in the ''One Hundred Views of New Tokyo'' series, to which he contributed twelve prints, "notable for their spiky, stark quality." Un'ichi Hiratsuka, a friend of Suwa's who worked with him on the series, remarked that his prints had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suwa Kanenori, 1930
Suwa or SUWA may refer to: Places * Suwa Province, an old Japanese province located in Tōsandō for a brief period of time, which today composes the southern part of Nagano Prefecture * Suwa, Nagano, a city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan * Suwa Shrine (other), the name of several Shinto shrines in Japan * Lake Suwa, a lake in the Kiso Mountains, in the central region of Nagano Prefecture, Japan * Suwa, a small ancient Egyptian site about 10 km south-east of Zagazig in the Nile Delta * Suwa, Diz, a historical Assyrian hamlet in Hakkari, Turkey Organizations * Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, a wilderness preservation organization in the United States based in Salt Lake City, Utah People * Michiko Suwa (1935-2015), the maiden name of Japanese-American marathoner Miki Gorman * Nanaka Suwa (born 1994), Japanese voice actress * Nejiko Suwa (1920–2012), Japanese violinist * Nobuhiro Suwa (born 1960), Japanese film director *, Japanese ''daimyō'' * Takahiro Suwa (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moku Hanga
Woodblock printing in Japan (, ''mokuhanga'') is a technique best known for its use in the ''ukiyo-e'' artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868) and similar to woodcut in Western printmaking in some regards, the mokuhanga technique differs in that it uses water-based inks—as opposed to western woodcut, which typically uses oil-based inks. The Japanese water-based inks provide a wide range of vivid colors, glazes, and transparency. History Early, to 13th century In 764 the Empress Kōken commissioned one million small wooden pagodas, each containing a small woodblock scroll printed with a Buddhist text (''Hyakumantō Darani''). These were distributed to temples around the country as thanks for the suppression of the Emi Rebellion of 764. These are the earliest examples of woodblock printing known, or documented, from Japan. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about west of Osaka and southwest of Kyoto. The earliest written records regarding the region come from the '' Nihon Shoki'', which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 201.Ikuta Shrine official website – "History of Ikuta Shrine" (Japanese) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un'ichi Hiratsuka
, born in Matsue, Shimane, was a Japanese woodblock printmaker. He was one of the prominent leaders of the '' sōsaku hanga'' ("creative print") movement in 20th century Japan. Hiratsuka's father was a shrine carpenter, and his grandfather was an architect who designed houses and temples. Therefore, the artist was introduced to wood-working and architecture early in his life. Hiratsuka was the best–trained woodcarver in the ''sōsaku hanga'' movement. From 1928 onwards he taught the renowned ''sōsaku hanga'' artist Shikō Munakata (1903–1975) wood carving. The same year he joined with seven other like-minded artists to work on the ''100 Views of New Tokyo'' series, to which he contributed twelve prints; his prints were lauded for their "technical beauty and perfection." Between 1935 and 1944 Hiratsuka taught the first blockprinting course at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. He moved to Washington D.C. in 1962 and spent thirty three years in the United States. While living i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukazawa Sakuichi
Sakuichi Fukazawa (4 September 1896 – 12 January 1947) was a Japanese painter and woodblock printer working within the '' sosaku-hanga'' "creative prints" movement. Fukazawa was born in Niigata Prefecture and moved to Tokyo at a young age, where he attended Tokyo Central School of Commerce and Industry. Around 1918 he learnt the art of woodblock printing under Suwa Kanenori and exhibited at the Sosaku Hanga Kyokai (Creative Print Association) in 1922. His work appeared in magazines such as 'Minato' and its successor 'Kaze'.Fukazawa Sakuichi (深沢索一) He was a founding member of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Hundred Views Of New Tokyo
''One Hundred Views of New Tokyo'' (''新東京百景, Shin Tōkyō Hyakkei'') was a series of Japanese woodblock printing, woodblock prints created from 1928 to 1932 by eight artists of the sōsaku hanga "creative print" movement. The artists were Un'ichi Hiratsuka, Kōshirō Onchi, Sakuichi Fukazawa, Kawakami Sumio, Senpan Maekawa, Fujimori Shizuo, Henmi Takashi and Suwa Kanenori. Publication After much of Tokyo was destroyed by fire after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, a new wave of sōsaku-hanga artists banded together and looked to document the changing face of the city, much as Hiroshige's series ''One Hundred Famous Views of Edo'' had 75 years earlier. The artists called themselves the ''Takujōsha'' ("Table Group") and the prints were published by the group via Nakajima Jutaro of the Nihon Sosaku Hanga Club.Merritt, pp. 276-8 Each artist contributed 12 or 13 prints. The series was issued on a subscription basis in an edition of only 50 sets. In the February 1932 ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiseido
is a Japanese multinational cosmetic company founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1872. Its product categories consist of: skin care, makeup, body care, hair care, and fragrances. The company is one of the oldest cosmetic companies in the world and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2022. It is the largest cosmetic firm in Japan and the fifth largest cosmetic company in the world. In Japan, Shiseido is available at cosmetic counters at selected department stores and most pharmacies. The company owns numerous brands and subsidiaries worldwide, in addition to its founding label. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, and is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Company History Founding Arinobu Fukuhara, former head pharmacist to the Imperial Japanese Navy, established the Shiseido Pharmacy in 1872. After a visit to the United States and Europe, Arinobu added a soda fountain to the store. This later grew into the Shiseido Parlor restaurant business, and eventually led to the introduction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Deaths
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
