
Blood Wars
100 Warrior Triptychs From History & Myth
Ringo Yoshida(Editor)
Shinbaku (Publisher)
Published on 12. November 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-84068-336-3 (ISBN)
Description
Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, perhaps the best-known of all 19th century ukiyo-e artists, created illustrations of mythic warriors and legendary battles throughout his career, including years spent documenting contemporaneous civil conflicts. This book collects 100 such prints by Yoshitoshi, often violent and bloody in nature, ranging in subject from the internecine decapitation wars of the 12th to 16th centuries to the uprising of the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, the last stand of Japan's samurai class against the new imperial government. The selection of works is also limited to the triptych format, which gave ukiyo-e artists the freedom to express their phantasies as narratives in a kinetic, detailed image frame. All illustrations are reproduced in full color.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Creation Books
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 281 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84068-336-3 (9781840683363)
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Persons
Yoshitoshi was one of the acknowledged masters of ukiyo-e, the 19th century art of Japanese print design; he is probably the best-known of all ukiyo-e masters.