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Kuchi-e gallery
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This account will post videos about Japanese woodblock prints and the artists who created them. The primary focus will be on Kuchi-e (frontispieces) and Ukiyo-e. The prints shown will be from my personal collection and from original editions (unless noted).
While searching online, I noted a lack of information about the Japanese woodblock prints and artists that I wanted to know about. That is the reason I made this TH-cam account!
There are other excellent accounts with videos about Japanese woodblock prints, and I enjoy watching those videos too!
A disclaimer: I have been collecting woodblock prints for 14 years! I consider my researching ability to be fair, but I am NOT an expert nor academic scholar on the subject of Japanese art nor culture. I apologize in advance for any errors of fact or butchering of the Japanese language!
If you don’t agree with my opinions or stated facts, please make a comment, so I can check my data!
Please subscribe for notification of future videos!
While searching online, I noted a lack of information about the Japanese woodblock prints and artists that I wanted to know about. That is the reason I made this TH-cam account!
There are other excellent accounts with videos about Japanese woodblock prints, and I enjoy watching those videos too!
A disclaimer: I have been collecting woodblock prints for 14 years! I consider my researching ability to be fair, but I am NOT an expert nor academic scholar on the subject of Japanese art nor culture. I apologize in advance for any errors of fact or butchering of the Japanese language!
If you don’t agree with my opinions or stated facts, please make a comment, so I can check my data!
Please subscribe for notification of future videos!
Japanese Kuchi-e woodblock prints! Package opening video #8.
TH-cam package opening video # 8, content description.
In today’s video, I’ll be opening 4 individual packages of Japanese
Kuchi-e woodblock prints (ordered from Japan). This package is a blind opening (of sorts). It’s been a couple of months since I ordered these items in most cases. Being that I order several prints some months, I often don’t know what arrives in any one combined shipping package. Especially because these aggregated packages typically hold multiple sales, with each originating from a different seller.
Artists discussed in this video.
Today I will discuss (with myself) several prints by the artist Kaburaki Kiyokata. There are 2 copies of the same design which will be compared side by side and noting the similarities and differences in each. One was removed from the original book at some point in the past, and the other print has remained within the book since first published in 1915. Which is better?
We will also discuss a 3rd print by Kiyokata (which is also from the same original series of books as the other two).
The final print being discussed in this video is by the artist Maeno Shuntei.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video are my own. I do not warrant any claims made and all information given during these videos is for entertainment purposes only.
I do not make any commissions nor am I am affiliated with any of the products I discuss, they are discussed for informational purposes only.
In today’s video, I’ll be opening 4 individual packages of Japanese
Kuchi-e woodblock prints (ordered from Japan). This package is a blind opening (of sorts). It’s been a couple of months since I ordered these items in most cases. Being that I order several prints some months, I often don’t know what arrives in any one combined shipping package. Especially because these aggregated packages typically hold multiple sales, with each originating from a different seller.
Artists discussed in this video.
Today I will discuss (with myself) several prints by the artist Kaburaki Kiyokata. There are 2 copies of the same design which will be compared side by side and noting the similarities and differences in each. One was removed from the original book at some point in the past, and the other print has remained within the book since first published in 1915. Which is better?
We will also discuss a 3rd print by Kiyokata (which is also from the same original series of books as the other two).
The final print being discussed in this video is by the artist Maeno Shuntei.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video are my own. I do not warrant any claims made and all information given during these videos is for entertainment purposes only.
I do not make any commissions nor am I am affiliated with any of the products I discuss, they are discussed for informational purposes only.
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Package opening video #7 (part 2 of 2).
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In this current video I complete the opening of package #7, where I’ll discuss the final 3 Kuchi-e (frontispiece) Japanese woodblock prints, in detail. All three of the prints included in this opening were created by the very prolific, yet oft under appreciated, artist Takeuchi Keishu! All opinions are my own, based on reading reference books, and speaking to other collectors. Should you have a...
Japanese Kuchi-e woodblock print package opening video #7 (part 1 of 2). Five new prints discussed!
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During video #7 (part 1), I’ll be opening a large package of Kuchi-e woodblock prints from Japan. We’ll be discussing 5 books and the woodblock prints contained therein. Shockingly, all five designs are new to my collection this time… and 2 of them I have been seeking for over 10 years! Pease note! All products mentioned or discussed during the making of this video are neither endorsed nor reco...
Package opening video #6! Viewing Japanese woodblock prints by the amazing artist Kaburaki Kiyokata.
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In today’s video, I’ll be opening two small packages of Japanese woodblock prints, Kuchi-e (frontispieces). The two 2 beautiful prints displayed during this video were both designed by the artist Kaburaki Kiyokata. Shockingly, one of the two prints is considerably smaller than I anticipated, but thankfully this did not take away from its beauty. NOTES: Disclaimer: The views expressed in this vi...
Japanese Woodblock print package opening video number 5
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In today’s video, I’ll be opening a large package of Japanese woodblock prints (featuring 7 mystery items, ordered from Japan). This package is a blind opening of sorts. It’s been 2-3 months since I ordered these items, and because I order a large quantity of prints some months, I often don’t know what arrives in any single aggregate shipping package. Especially because these packages typically...
Opening a package of Japanese woodblock prints from Japan 4. Rare knife fight Kuchi-e by Kiyokata!!
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Package opening #4! Woodblock print discussion for 7 Japanese woodblock prints in this video! Several beautiful designs and one very rare print by Kaburaki Kiyokata featuring two beauties fighting…with a knife! Description of prints displayed in this opening…. TH-cam video #4 print notes: Number :1 Artist: Kajita Hanko Title: “Beauty and Plum Tree” Date:1907 Number: 2 Artist: Kaburaki Kiyokata ...
My third video opening packages of Japanese woodblock prints, and we find two AMAZING designs!!
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This time I’ll be opening two packages containing Japanese woodblock printed Kuchi-e. The first package contains a very early(1901)and beautiful design by Kaburaki Kiyokata, titled “New spring”. This piece was purchased from a woodblock print gallery in Japan called Curve Arts. They often have nice woodblock prints for sale if you’re looking. The second package contains an amazingly rare design...
What Japanese woodblock prints arrived in my mail from Japan Today? Ghosts and Lightening!! Oh my!!
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During today’s video package opening, we’ll be looking over two new Japanese woodblock prints that arrived in the mail from Japan! I’ll discuss two prints today. The first is an interesting lightening design by Utagawa Kunikazu, and the second design is an interesting ghost design by a yet to be determined artist. Note. I made an error during the video saying that Kunikazu and Konobu were from ...
Package opening! Opening up a new Woodblock print from Japan…my first video does NOT go as planned!!
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This is my first TH-cam video! I open up a package from a Japanese print dealer, expecting to see a Kuchi-e (frontispiece) woodblock print by the lesser known artist “Koban”! As might happen when I wait too long to open a package, it turns out to be a different package with a different artist’s print enclosed. So much for best laid plans for my first video!
Thank you for your comment! Yes, it is true that the larger monthly literary magazine publishers would employ multiple printers to meet their woodblock Kuchi-e needs. That could certainly account for the variance in colors between examples of the same design.
Nice video, but it is not a question of a earlier or later print, it is a print done by another workshop, to my knowledge, hundreds or thousands of prints were made of every magazine issue under time pressure, the woodblock key blocks were transferred to metal key blocks and then dispersed to different workshops to make the print, they used the metal key blocks to make their own set of color blocks, so key blocks should be the same, but colors differences are because the prints were made in different workshops. Please correct me if i am wrong, this is just one short explanation for kuchi-e print color differences.
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Thank you for sharing. Intriguing, especially the kuchies of 3rd two-volume books. The 2nd one is the translation of “Les deux merles de m. de Saint-Mars ” by Fortuné du Boisgobey, a French writer. It’s a novel almost forgotten in French but was fairly popular in Japan owing to this book. It’s based on a real story in the 17th century. The man wearing an iron mask in the kuchie is the main character who is an unknown prisoner possibly from a noble family. Actually he is said to have been wearing a fabric one, though.
@@塩谷啓介-t2yThank you very much for your comments! They are very interesting! I did find some references to that in my research, but I was not sure if it was the same "Iron Mask". What a truly horrific thought, if the story is real. Can you imagine it, being forced to endure a lifetime of neck and facial infections, combined with maddening and unending pain! Do you think the original story was written as fact or fiction? I wonder if this book was the basis for the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, "The man in the Iron Mask"?🤔🎭
@@Kuchi-e_woodblocks It’s a fiction😄 Also in Alexandre Dumas’ ‘D'Artagnan’, there appears a man with an iron mask as the twin brother of Roi Louis XIV. Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’ is based on it.
@@塩谷啓介-t2yah I see! There genuinely was a story about some British royalty being locked away in a castle dungeon/ tower until they both died. They were children I believe. A really disturbing story!😢
Thanks for sharing! The 2nd Kiyokata is the kuchie of the smaller one-volume version of ‘Makaze Koikaze (Demon Wind Love Wind)’. The original version were published in 3 volumes. There is only one woodcut kuchie in the 2nd volume and the other kuchies are litho. The kuchie by Kiyokata of the original book is the same design as that of the smaller version but is as big as the 1st kuchie of 3 maikos you first introduced. The smaller version might be a bit rarer.
Thank you very much for your comment! That explains much about my confusion on the smaller sizing!! Now, I’ll have to keep my eyes open for the larger print, so I can have both! ‼️‼️🤔🤣
The kuchi-e conundrum: do I cut my print from its magazine for safe keeping or do I leave it in situ? Thanks for the video
@@mokuhanga1 Hello. Thank you for your comment. To be honest, I have never personally removed one from a book, finding that they are almost universally in better condition when kept inside the book. However, the one reason that I would seriously consider removing a print from the book, is one where the acidity of the paper used during the production of the book was actively causing the print damage and staining. Unfortunately, by the time I see that damage is occurring, it's already too late to save the print. If I notice some area is causing a stain (because the pages are facing each other), I typically place a small piece of acid free paper between the offending areas. The other thing I have begun to consider in the last few years, is that the books themselves have value to collectors in Japan. They are certainly worth less if the Kuchi-e has been removed. I typically tell people that if the print looks good, leave it within the book. If you wish to display the print, make a laser copy and hang that. This will allow you to enjoy the image, while still preserving your future investment.