FOUR COMPARATIVE IMAGES - FROM THE JAPANESE PRINT

01 frontispiece divided into two images to the Japanese novel YEHON KIJO DEN by Ritsujetei Kiran, 1817, for a comparison of an image in two panels...


02 Katsukawa Shunsho (1726 - 1792) three actors dancing the Sparrow Dance, a Hosaban triptych 1765, each panel 32 x 15cms. The figures from a play are shown dancing across a plank bridge with lily pond beneath.

03 Utagawa Kunijoshi, left hand triptych of the 1847 print, 24 x 36 cms, The last defence of the Kusunoki at Shijonawate.

04 Kuniyoshi, Ushiwaka and Benkei fighting on the Gojo Bridge, c1840,

 

KUNIYOSHI, Gathering Shells by Low Tide, Japanese three panel print

woodcut from The Venerable Bede, The History of the Church of England, Antwerp 1565

two pages from Itinerarium, a life of the Virgin Ulm 1490