{"id":11,"date":"2022-12-10T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2022-12-10T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:07:25","slug":"new-release-banzai-ukiyoe-san-en-kitagawa-utamaro-by-tsuruya-kokei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"[New Release] &#8220;Banzai-Ukiyoe San-en \/ Kitagawa Utamaro&#8221; by Tsuruya Kokei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce the release of the first piece from a new series by <strong>Tsuruya Kokei<\/strong> \u201cBanzai-Ukiyoe San-en.\u201d<br \/>\nThe artist depicted here is <strong>Kitagawa Utamaro<\/strong>, who is recognized as a master of beauty prints.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/detail.php?item_id=65786\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/utamaro.jpg\" alt=\"[New Release] &quot;Banzai-Ukiyoe San-en \/ Kitagawa Utamaro&quot; by Tsuruya Kokei\" width=\"290\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14\" \/><br \/>\n\u201cBanzai-Ukiyoe San-en \/ Kitagawa Utamaro\u201d by Tsuruya Kokei<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Note from the artist]<br \/>\nAbout Kitagawa Utamaro, from the series \u201cBanzai-Ukiyoe San-en\u201d<br \/>\n-The first work from a series of three ukiyo-e artists drawing Shunga.<br \/>\n-This is Utamaro drawing the Enpon (illustrated erotic book) \u201cEhon iro no chigusa\u201d at about the age of 45.<br \/>\n-The face is respectfully based on his handsome portrait which was done \u2018motome ni ojite (by request)\u2019 in his work \u201cthe Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, Act 11.\u201d<br \/>\n-I referred to and was inspired by the following: the portrait for the narrow face and eyes; the preface from the Enpon for the background; the dragonfly and poppies from \u201cEhon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects) for the kimono; the kiwame-in (seals) and crest of Tsutaya Juzaburo for the under-kimono.<br \/>\n-I hope you can feel the richness of woodblock from the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce the release of the first piece from a new series by Tsuruya Kokei \u201cBanzai-Ukiyoe San-en.\u201d The artist depicted here is Kitagawa Utamaro, who is recognized as a master of beauty prints. \u201cBanzai-Ukiyoe San-en \/ Kitagawa Utamaro\u201d by Tsuruya Kokei [Note from the artist] About Kitagawa Utamaro, from the series \u201cBanzai-Ukiyoe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-arrivals","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}