Hishikawa Moronobu
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Arts: Money, sex and fashion The work by artists of `the floating world' on show at the Royal Academy brilliantly captures an 18th-century Japan obsessed by the pleasures of the flesh, says Michael Glover
; ...production. It begins with a celebration of the art of Hishikawa Moronobu, who died in 1694, scion of a family of fabric decorators...called Procession of a Courtesan (c1681-84), attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu. The lady is processing through the streets with her retainers...
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ART: PRIVATE VIEW The Dawn of the Floating World to 17 Feb Royal Academy, London W1
; ...ukiyo (above), as it was called, soon spawned a new art form, ukiyo-e, - pictures of the floating world. Artists such as Hishikawa Moronobu were particularly fascinated by the life of Edo's courtesan quarter and the kabuki actors. His beautifully achieved prints...
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Arts Guide
; ...Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.'' About 140 Japanese prints from the early ukiyo-e period (1660-1765) by such artists as Hishikawa Moronobu (died 1694) and Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764). Ukiyo-e, ''pictures of the floating world,'' comprise one of the most important...
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Great sex from Japan
; ...zoning so that pleasure palaces were now cheek-by-jowl in a special quarter, with at least 3,000 registered prostitutes. In Hishikawa Moronobu's dazzling pair of folding screens, it really is a floating world. Exquisitely drawn scenes of theatres and brothels...
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Great sex from Japan.
; ...zoning so that pleasure palaces were now cheek-by-jowl in a special quarter, with at least 3,000 registered prostitutes. In Hishikawa Moronobu's dazzling pair of folding screens, it really is a floating world. Exquisitely drawn scenes of theatres and brothels...
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Rosy View
; ...from soon after it was first visualised in the 17th century. Not long after Asai Ryoi wrote the description above, one Hishikawa Moronobu was noted as a `floating-world picture master. The genre of `floating-- world pictures' consisted largely of images of...
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Japan's prints for masses; Poor lighting spoils effect.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
; ...paintings. The thousands of ukiyo-e prints produced provided good, cheap art. At first, black-and-white prints like those by Hishikawa Moronobu, who founded the ukiyo-e woodblock school in the 17th century, documented townspeople wandering through Edo. The world...
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From Japan, objects of beauty and everyday life; MFA exhibit touches on nine centuries
; ...of theater and brothels, and this show selectively echoes that one. A gorgeous 17th-century screen by painting master Hishikawa Moronobu, "A Visit to the Yoshiwara," meanders in vivid colors through the red light district of Edo (now Tokyo). In one chamber...
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MFA's `Drama and Desire' explores pleasure principle in Japan
; ...each section measuring almost 12 feet wide - greets visitors at the start of the show. Made in the late 17th century by Hishikawa Moronobu, "Scenes From the Nakamura Kabuki Theater and the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter" offers a bird's-eye view. Visible through...
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Designed for pleasure; the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
; ...lengthy essays describe different issues and protagonists in Edo print culture by leading art historians. The artists Hishikawa Moronobu, Okumura Masanobu, Suzuki Harunobu, and Katsukawa Shunsho, and the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo are each the subject of...
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Moronobu
(Hishikawa Moronobu) , c.1618-c.1694, Japanese painter and color-print designer of the ukiyo-e school. He began his career...painting of a genre scene at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of the few remaining paintings by Moronobu.
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ukiyo-e
...kabuki actors in famous roles, and erotica; they were executed in flat, decorative colours and expressive patterns. Hishikawa Moronobu is generally accredited as the first master of ukiyo-e. The transition from single- to two-colour prints was made...
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