#moronobu

[lisamarie-vee]

[maniacwatchestheworld]

So here are some real, officially licensed Pokemon cards... And I think that they're neat as hell! :D

Hey, Pokemon Company? Can you please make more cards like these? I don't know if there are more Pokemon cards outside of these two collections that are essentially parodies of famous historical works of art, but honestly I just think that these two collections are the neatest thing! I would LOVE to own cards like these! Please make more!

[kmalexander]

Moronobu Gansai: A Free 17th Century Cartography Brush Set for Fantasy Maps

The Tōkaidō was the most important of the Gokaidō (Five Routes/Highways) administrated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo Period. Running along the coast of Honshu, this road linked the shogunate’s capital of Edo with the imperial city of Kyoto. Along this route were fifty-three government post stations where travelers had to show their traveling permits and pay their toll before…

[love1kimono]

Hishikawa Moronobu, Standing Woman

[artschoolglasses]

Scenes from the Nakamura Kabuki Theatre, Attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu, 17th Century

[breezybeej]

Ukiyo-e History: Hishikawa Moronobu, pt 3

Cranes (undated)

There is still much pride taken in the early days of ukiyo-e. Swirls, curves, and fine lining were indicators of great skill and you can see that here with the feathers, leg textures, and water.

Tamuramaru (undated)

Another example of hand painting. Without dabs of color, some of the demons in this image would get lost in the details of the water and smoke. Even just a hasty splot of ink is enough to separate the monster from the texture. More of a tool than a design choice, perhaps. Or this could be an artist's proof, showing where and what colors he wanted.

The Shutendoji Story (1680s)

Here, the colors draw you to the kidnapped maiden and the wound on the other human. The demons, on the other hand, blend together within the tangle of lines and bodies.

My Ukiyo-e History series (desktop)

Ukiyo-e History series (mobile) (will be in reverse order)

[k-star-holic]

Ida Daussy, Remarriage With The Frenchman's Son Husband 5 Years Ago "Band Compatibility Is Good" (Radio Star')

[fireandiceland]

✨ Hetalia characters as famous paintings ✨

Italy: Sandro Botticelli, La nascita di Venere (The Birth of Venus)

America: Grant Wood, American Gothic

Germany: Albrecht Dürer, Selbstbildnis im Pelzrock; Feldhase (Self-Portrait in Fur-Collared Robe; Young Hare)

England: Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy

France: Claude Monet, La Femme à l'ombrelle — Madame Monet et son fils (Woman With A Parasol - Madame Monet And Her Son)

Japan: Hishikawa Moronobu, 見返り美人図 (Beauty Looking Back)

Russia: Ivan Kramskoi, Неизвестная (Portrait of an Unknown Woman)

China: Unknown, 百人物像 冊 絹本 (One hundred portraits of Peking opera characters) (special thanks @maibluemen for helping me with this one!)

[nemfrog]

Ogura hyakunin isshu (One hundred poets, one hundred poems). 1680.

"This illustrated book of Ogura hyakunin isshu (One hundred poets, one hundred poems) is a collection of one hundred 31-syllable classical Japanese poems (waka), each by a different poet. The collection is organized chronologically from Emperor Tenji (626-671) to Emperor Juntoku (1197-1242). Each of the poets is depicted by a woodblock print created by Hishikawa Moronobu (1618-circa 1694). Morobonu is often considered the first Ukiyo-e artist." Library of Congress

LOC

[japaneseaesthetics]

Beauty Turning Her Head, by Hishikawa Moronobu, ca. 1685-1694. Japan

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

Sexualization extended to images of reading, too. Many of the paintings and prints produced by Moronobu and his contemporaries, for instance, depict not “respectable” women but courtesans in the act of reading (see figure 4), and in many scenes the implied narrative is that reading gives way to sex, for in many a shunga scene books lie scattered about the floor. Sometimes the woman portrayed reading is clearly stated not to be a courtesan, but is nevertheless shown in a situation of intimacy (see figure 2). Even the most sober didactic works were not immune to treatment of this sort. A particularly apposite example is an erotic parody of Onna daigaku. This inevitably anonymous and undated piece, entitled Onna dairaku 女大楽(Great Pleasure for Women) and probably published in the 1720s, includes a scene in which a woman’s reading is interrupted by a man who is genitally stimulating her from the other side of the kotatsu. Here the very act of reading is invaded by the fantasies of the erotic tradition.

peter f. kornicki, "unsuitable books for women? genji monogatari and ise monogatari in late seventeenth-century japan," monumenta nipponica vol. 60 no. 2

[masterpeaces-of-japanese-culture]

Beauty Looking Back, by Hishikawa Moronobu, 17th century

Description

[kmalexander]

Moronobu Mokuhanga: A Free 17th Century Cartography Brush Set for Fantasy Maps

The early Japanese road maps, or dōchūzu (道中図), became popular during the Genroku Era. These detailed (and often long) manuscripts feel more like illustrations than traditional maps. As travel along the Tōkaidō became popularized, depictions of journeys flourished. Poetry, story, song, and maps gave the peasant farmer or merchant a chance to experience the wider country and partake in a bit of…

[love1kimono]

Hishikawa Moronobu, Beauty Looking Back, 17th c

[crazyfox-archives]

An illustration depicting Kōtokuin Temple (高徳院) and its large bronze image of Amida Buddha in Kamakura as it was in the mid-17th century

From “Tales of Kamakura” (鎌倉物語 “Kamakura Monogatari”) by Nakagawa Kiun (中川喜雲) and illustrated by Hishikawa Moronobu (菱川師宣), published in 1659

Image from the temple’s official website