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It is difficult not to like and most thoroughly enjoy all of Hokusai’s work, and although certain works, like “Red Fuji” and the very similar “lightning beneath the summit” thing, seem rather cartoonish to me, and certainly we have all been “Great Wave Off Kanagawa’d” to within an inch of our lives, but the humanity and charm of his overall oeuvre (can I say that?), is inescapable, and certainly Aubrey Beardsley would have been just absolutely lost without him, would he not? I have no Hokusai amongst the prints within “The Little Ukiyo-e Collection That Could!”…not even a litho print of the terrible wave itself, but I do have an exceedingly rare print by Shotei Hokoju, who was probably his best and most prolific student… And I do, certainly, have much of Hokusai’s work in my reference library, and while I am exceedingly fond of the principal “Poet” series (especially “100 Poems Explained By The Nurse”), it’s all marvelous, and of course Katsushika’s “birds and flowers” prints have never been exceeded by anyone, not even by my “main man” Hiroshige! I will also always have a great fondness for the “tourist tree huggers” print, being one myself! With apologies to Hokusai and Hasui, and especially Moronobu (the essential founder of this whole gorgeous madness, who later re-incarnated in America as cartoonist Chic Young, who then created the comic strip “Blondie and Dagwood”… go ahead, look at their respective works and tell me I’m crazy… and it doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive!), but if I could have only one more print added to my collection, it would almost certainly be one by Suzuki Haranobu, like the girl on the veranda catching fireflies… Oh, my most dear Little Art Museum, please cover Suzuki Haranobu soon (although I would be willing to settle for “53 Stations of the Tokaido” in the luscious and perilous meantime… see, I’m easy!)… You know well by now LAM, the depth of my love and appreciation for your outrageous and righteous excellence, but it’s fun to ring the temple bells at evening, and to revisit the effulgent verities! Namaste… - XOXOXO! Glenn Jones (Who is said to be hiding somewhere in the mystic “Edo” of his heart and mind!)…

お酒を飲みながら、とてもいい時間が過ごせました。ここは寛容な美術館ですね。 近くのものをまず見て、それから富士山を見ようとすると、目が、ほんとうに遠くにあるものを見ているようでした。それこそ景色を眺めるときのような。 1:45 あたりで一節流れるアルペジオに、日本的な響きをしみじみかんじます。 なんという曲なんでしょうか。 よければお返事いただけるとうれしいです。

竹内栖凰さんの絵、好きです。でも幾つかしか知らなくて。ありがとうございます😊

You know how greatly I truly appreciate Little Art Museum (although I do love revisiting the fact, so watch for more “incoming” in future comments!), but since I am quite nearly incapable of leaving a comment space empty, here I go again… On that point (and I’ve addressed this previously in LAM comment lines), why do so many of my fellow art aficionados have apparently NOTHING TO SAY? Seriously, boys and girls, if you really have no questions or observations to share, then just MAKE SOMETHING UP! Just say “thanks,” or “I’d love to visit Japan” (or France!), or just generate some silly “emojibberish” that has arcane significance for you (OK, I’m not a fan, but, you know, you do you!)… I just love Japanese names (and Asian names in general), but Japanese ARTIST names take it all to the next level, and is a fascinating and engaging subject all by itself (aside from the truly amazing woodblock art and printing techniques!)… So on that score, most of my sources give this artist’s name as Kawase Hasui, rather than the reverse, that is to say, “family” or “artist” name first, then the personal or “I am called,” or “known as” name second, the reverse of the western approach (although “El Greco” gets a pass, being essentially just “The Greek”… yet it does beg the question as to whether his wife called him “the Greek”… maybe around the house she just called him “El”)… So you see, people (not you LAM, I’m talking here to all of my fellow art lovers, the notoriously “great unwashed”), you can very easily carry on almost endlessly in the wonderful commentary context while having essentially nothing on your mind but your hat! Seriously people, try this at home! As the Coach always said… “Let’s hear some chatter out there!” Love you LAM! Thanks so much, you’ve made my Saturday… - XOXOXO! Glenn Jones PS: Yoshitoshi said to say hello (He and Kuniyoshi stopped by the house earlier this week!)… PPS: Do Suzuki Haranobu! Do Suzuki Haranobu!

It’s me again, loving Little Art Museum like it’s going out of style (which it never will, at least at my house!). I’m not at all sure when this artist worked, but the simplicity and “feel” suggest 1960’s- ‘70’s… Quite lovely, especially as I reluctantly emerge from my Ukiyo-e cocoon and begin to embrace the Taisho era (I’m sorry, but with exceptions made for Yoshitoshi and Kobayashi Kiyochika, and a just few others, the Meiji era prints, with their rather grotesque Europeans and Americans and the inevitable “trains,” just leave me cold… Unlike “Little Art Museum,” which always leaves me fully in love with humanity and its great and irrepressible potentials… - XOXOXO! Glenn Jones

Bravo LAM, bravo Corot! You rightly perceive that the best art the west has to offer on the level of Japanese woodblock prints (especially of the Ukiyo-e and Taisho eras!) is Impressionism… Always more love for Little Art Museum! - Namaste, Glenn Jones (USA)

Little Art Museum... "Always and always"... -- XOXOXO! (Little Glenn Museum)

音楽のチョイスも素敵。 観てると深呼吸ができてすごく心が安らぐ…

ハァ〜〜〜。（素敵すぎて）ただため息。

Oh dear Little Art Museum! What a wonderful selection of Edo prints! I have Mikhail Uspensky's book, and so I am familiar with all of these prints, but as no two woodblock prints, even from the same edition, are, by their nature, ever absolutely identical (especially in regard to "bokashi" and "tem-bokashi" effects!), this was just a pure delight! "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" was my first exposure to Hiroshige, and Ukio-e in general, but I've been "drinking the Kool-Aid" ever since! If I'm not mistaken, this is a "mixed" set of prints, and I like it all the better for that! I especially enjoyed the wood grain being especially visible in your set of prints, which is not always the case in many print sources... I suspect that you probably already have a "53 Stations of the Tokaido" series, and I would also love to see a "69 Stations of the Kiso-Kaido" (with Hiroshige and Eisen!), but all your posts are absolutely gorgeous, and the Impressionism posts are also dazzling! Thanks so very much for all you do! -- Namaste "LAM," Glenn Jones (USA)

Little Art Museum is, without a doubt, one of the greatest treasures on TH-cam! After breath, the glad quenching of thirst, some amenable biscuits (or ramen), my own bed, comfortable shoes and a warm place to conduct my daily ablutions, Little Art Museum is one of my favorite things in the world! And I am no stranger to art! In 1995 I drove from my home in Minneapolis to Chicago. I was then a member of the Art Institute of Chicago, and had advance tickets to see the incredible Monet show they had mounted, including just about everything he had ever painted… My girlfriend and I stayed at a very cozy little hotel in Oak Park, and also took in a day’s worth of Frank Lloyd Wright (you could do that in those days without being wealthy!)… Nowadays I can’t even afford my membership in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, while egregiously wealthy billionaires buy up great art and secrete it away in their 5th or 6th homes in Switzerland, or Dubai, or São Paulo, or their “doomsday bunkers” located no one knows where, while the rest of us get by on reduced rations and red caps, and slim volumes of “The Ersatz Quotations of Chairman One Ear” (OK, I’ll stop, but you get the idea)… But in less than a week, LAM has introduced me to two artists I was formerly completely unfamiliar with, Frits Thaulow and Shoen Uemura, both absolutely dazzling and world class! I hope no one resents my rambling on like this, but since nobody else has seen fit to venture so much as a single word here, I thought I’d go for it (I may not be nearly so loquacious or erudite upon the morrow!)… Wishing comfort and joy to all who read these few words of reminiscence and regret, and I love you all just like coming home (although as Thomas Wolfe observed “You can’t go home again,” and how sadly true!)… - Namaste! Glenn Jones (Planet Dearth)

この絵画も音楽も素敵ですね。 昔の西洋の暮らしが、ゆったりとした時間の流れと人の生活の様子が明るい感じで表現されていて、観ていて癒されます。この曲もとても素敵ですね。ありがとうございました。

Lovely… breathtaking… ethereal! Paraphrasing Hokusai, I should rebrand myself, “Old man, crazy about woodblocks”… I have a small, but I think not insignificant, collection of Japanese woodblocks (I believe I have a rare original Tori Kiyonaga, circa 1795), including some excellent Hiroshige (of course, my favorite!), and three Tsuchiya Koitsu that I originally thought were Kawase Hasui when I bought them (was my face red!)… I don’t read Japanese, but I did eventually discern my error!”)… but Shoen Uemura is (I’m delighted to say!), new to me… I’ve already struck out with one sourcebook, “Worldly Pleasures, Earthly Delights,” but I’m just getting started! I also have no representation of Suzuki Haranobu, but I do believe I have just a lovely Shotei Hokuju from the early 19th Century, although this is based entirely on the artist’s style, as there are no markings whatsoever (though they may have been in the margins, which, if there were any, are now long gone… You wonderful “LAM-inators” know that I hold you in the absolute highest regard, but it can’t hurt to reiterate the fact… - Namaste! Glenn Jones

Inexpressible love and effulgent appreciation of “Little Art Museum”… you never fail to enfranchise my heart and bouy my flagging spirits! - Namaste, Glenn Jones - (Subscribed at my very first exposure, with never even a hint of anything less than completely compelling righteous ecstasy!)… - XOXOXO!

クリムトさまは、わたしより日本美術にくわしいみたい。鈴木春信が花鳥画を描いたら、こんな感じだろうなという清楚な美しさ。クリムトさまが、思わず欲しくなってしまった気持ち、わかりますね。

初めまして😊 「小さな美術館」 毎回楽しみにしております。 小原古邨 好きな画家の一人です。 草花や鳥、小動物の身近な存在をとても生き生きと愛らしく表現されていて心和みます。 木々や草花の種類から季節の移ろいを感じます。 素晴らしい木版画の世界をたくさんご紹介くださりありがとうございます。 音楽 とっても素敵です✨ これからもよろしくお願いいたします。

巴水さんの雪の情景描写は、他の追従を許さない圧倒的な静けさと優しさを感じます。出来れば１枚でも保有したいと思います。

良いチャンネルと出会えた、感謝

448 views in two weeks and 191 subscribed and I’m the first comment? Something is wrong with this picture, because there is nothing wrong with these pictures… I realize most “comments” are just belaboring the obvious or else some sort of emojibberish, but really! I will say without doubt that I just love LITTLE ART MUSEUM, so there!

Love to “Little Art Museum”… you bring it!

Although I have never been to Japan (at least as far as within this incarnation), my daughter has, and will be again next month, which suits me well, as someday I want her to sprinkle a small envelope of my ashes at the Sensoji temple in Asakusa… In regard to the lack of comments on these wonderful art posts, I may not know Japanese, but I know that the Japanese know baseball, so as the coach always liked to say: “Let’s hear some chatter out there!” - Best always, Glenn Jones

I know only a few words in Japanese, and read none, but my mind deplores a vacuum in any inscribable space, so I am sending much love from inside a rainy day in Minnesota, which like your art causes both joy and tears, two sides of a token, and ultimately by far the two greatest human potentials… Before moving on (to more of your work, if I’m not mistaken!), I am compelled to “ring the bell and subscribe,” and then isn’t the day just but fraught with poetry? - Namaste! Glenn Jones “From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I. Now - for a breath I tarry Nor yet disperse apart - Take my hand quick and tell me, What have you in your heart. Speak now and I will answer; How shall I help you, say; Ere to the wind’s twelve quarters I take my endless way.” - A. E. Housman

どうもありがとうございます ❤