Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’, the most iconic image in Japanese art – is setting some eye popping records at auction. Recently, an early-original Great Wave sold at Christies for a whopping $2.8million. That is almost double the previous sale from 2022, which was $1.5 million. That $1.5million sales was already up around 50%. So, the sales …
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Shunga – Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period – Great Pleasure in Edo A sub-category of Japanese ukiyo-e “Japanese woodblock prints”, is shunga, literally meaning “spring pictures” – a euphemism for sex. Extremely popular among the public during the Edo period, shunga depicts sexual imagery of all sorts – sex between a man and woman, …
An image representing how the Shin-hange movement continues, even today at a new exhibition upcoming in Brussels Shin – ‘new’ and hanga – ‘prints’. Literally meaning the ‘new prints’ the Japanese Shin-hanga art movement came around in early 20th century Japan when classical ukiyo-e prints of the 17th to 19th century, pioneered by the famous …
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