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Utagawa Hirokage
, also known as Ichiyūsai Hirokage, was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk t ... woodblock prints, who was active from about 1855 to 1865. He was a pupil of Utagawa Hiroshige I. From 1860 to 1861, Hirokage designed the series of ōban size prints titled ''Edo meisho dōke zukushi'' (Joyful Events in Famous Places in Edo). His reputation is based primarily upon this series and his 1859 triptych (The Great Battle between the Fruits and Vegetables and the Fish). Gallery File:Hirokage - (triptych) Great battle between the fruits & vegetables & fish (Aomono sakana gunzei daikassen no zu), 1859.jpg, (The Great Battle between the Fruits and Vegetables and the Fish), woodblock triptych by Hirokage, 1859 File:Shinobazu1859woodblockprint.jpg, Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signature Of Utagawa Hirokage Reading 'Hirokage Ga'
A signature (; from la, signare, "to sign") is a handwritten (and often stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" or other mark that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent. The writer of a signature is a signatory or signer. Similar to a handwritten signature, a signature work describes the work as readily identifying its creator. A signature may be confused with an autograph, which is chiefly an artistic signature. This can lead to confusion when people have both an autograph and signature and as such some people in the public eye keep their signatures private whilst fully publishing their autograph. Function and types The traditional function of a signature is to permanently affix to a document a person's uniquely personal, undeniable self-identification as physical evidence of that person's personal witness and certification of the content of all, or a specified part, of the document. For example, the role of a signatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
