#yamamura koka

[the-cricket-chirps]

Yamamura Köka (Toyonari)

One Matsusuke IV as Komori Yasu

1917

[thekimonogallery]

February - Wintry Sky by Yamamura Koka, 1924, Japan

[daughterofchaos]

Scroll painting with magnolia branch (detail), ca. 1933

Yamamura Kôka, Japan

[galleryofunknowns]

Yamamura Koka (b.1885 - d.1942), 'Actor Morita Kan'ya XIII as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, from the series Stars of Kabuki', c.1921, ink and colour on paper, Japanese, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, sold for $3,570 USD in Bonhams Fine Japanese and Korean Art sale, September 2019; New York, NY, USA.

[fujiwara57]

“Snowy Rooftops“ de

Yamamura Toyonari  山村豊成   [Kōka 耕花]   (1885 - 1942).

Yamamura Kōka est né en 1885 et étudia la peinture avec Ogata Gekkō 尾形月耕 (1859 - 1920). à l’Ecole des Beaux-arts de Tōkyō dont il sortit diplômé en 1907. Ses estampes sont signées «  Toyonari » tandis que ses peintures sont signées « Kōka ».

[tofuist]

山村耕花   自筆画

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山村耕花 Koka Yamamura (1885-1942)

“踊り 上海ニューカルトン所見”(English title：Dance) 1924年

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Artist: Yamamura Koka Toyonari, 1885-1942. "Actor in a Chinese Opera". Scholten Japanese Art

[aic-asian]

Dancing at the New Carlton Hotel in Shanghai, Yamamura Koka, 1924, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Frederick W. and Nathalie C. Gookin Endowment Size: 41.5 x 28.8 cm (16 5/16 x 11 5/16 in.) Medium: Color woodblock print

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/151372/

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Yamamura Koka (Toyonari, 1885-1942)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Toyonari (Yamamura Koka)

Festival Night Fireworks

1924

[thekimonogallery]

This is Jean Valjean, the main character of "Ah Mujou". It was played by Kabuki actor Kanya Morita, the thirteenth generation, and was made into a print by Japanese painter Koka Yamamura around 1920. Text by 昔の風俗をつぶやくよ @LfXAMDg4PE50i9e

[fujiwara57]

“Ichikawa Uzaemon XV as the Gardener Kichigoro”, 1921, de

Yamamura Toyonari  山村豊成   [Kōka 耕花]   (1885 - 1942).

Yamamura Kōka est né en 1885 et étudia la peinture avec Ogata Gekkō 尾形月耕 (1859 - 1920). à l’Ecole des Beaux-arts de Tōkyō dont il sortit diplômé en 1907. Ses estampes sont signées «  Toyonari » tandis que ses peintures sont signées « Kōka ».

[yajifun]

kunieda kanji shinbun shosetsu utamaro sashie / Yamamura Koka

邦枝完二新聞小説『歌麿』挿絵　山村耕花　1931年頃

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山村耕花 Koka Yamamura (1885-1942)

踊り 上海ニューカルトン所見(English title：Dance) 1924年

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Toyonari (Yamamura Koka), 1885-1942

Dancing at the New Carlton Hotel in Shanghai (Odori Shanhai Nyu Karuton shoken)

While Koka would also design landscape, animal, and still life prints, "Dancing at the New Carlton Hotel" holds an unique place among all of Koka's prints and, indeed, among shin hangaprints in general. It believed to be the firstmoga (modern girl) woodblock print and depicts taxi dancers at a trendy Shanghai hotel café. Displaying all the classic emblems of the moga, Koka's women wear fashionable Western-style clothes of the Roaring Twenties, sport bobbed hair, makeup, and jewelry, and are enjoying cocktails. Although the precise ethnicity of the dancers is unclear, Shanghai had a large influx of White Russian refugees in 1922 after the Russian Civil War and it is well-documented that many such Russian women became taxi dancers in Shanghai's famous cafés and nightclubs.Koka employs bright, vivid colors to illustrate a nightlife scene full of gin, jazz, and carnal abandon. The woman's fan is richly printed with a gold metallic, and its presence and the cut of the women's clothes suggest that it is a hot summer evening. Koka's use of the gomazuri(sesame printing) technique appears to be designed to suggest the frenetic movement of the dancers in the background. The background is also covered in a thin layer of shimmering mica, which further adds to the richness of the print while simultaneously conveying images of figures dancing in a cloud of cigarette smoke and bright lights.