Japanese Woodblock Prints and Brush Paintings Collection

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Japanese Woodblock Prints and Brush Paintings Collection

MSS.2010.07.01

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Series I. Woodblock Prints 1700-1942

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series is comprised of forty-seven woodblock prints on silk and rice cloth. Of special interest in this series is Hiroshi Yoshida's print Criptomeria Avenue. Yoshida was one of the last artists to work in the traditional shop fashion. Coming from a family of printmakers he initially began his career as a painter, studying in the Japanese city of Kyoto, as well as in Europe. Yoshida is known to have made at least one visit to the United States where he exhibited at the 1915 World Fair in San Francisco, California. The print in this collection is known to be one of the few copies created by Yoshida himself.

Arrangement

The prints in this series are arranged alphabetically by the family name of the artist.

drawer 01-20, Folder 1

Asada Benji 1899-1984

The Pagoda of Ninnaji Temple

drawer 01-20, Folder 6

Chobunsai Eishi

Geisha Girls

drawer 01-20, Folder 7

Kan-Un

Geese and Leaves

drawer 01-20, folder 8

Katsushika Hokusai

Landscapes

Physical Description: Envelope containing set of 5 small landscape prints. Includes conservator's note from 1982 about treatments which also references lost slides.

House Scene

Men (Diptich)

Physical Description: 2 prints mounted together on a paper frame.

The Great Wave

drawer 01-20, Folder 2

Kawanabe Kyosui (Gyosui) 1868-1935

Three Ladies Admiring the Maple Tree in the Garden 1890

drawer 01-20, folder 19

Kitagawa Utamaro -1806

Anxious in Love

Beauties Enjoying the Cool Breeze on a Bridge

drawer 01-20, folder 9

Kuniyoshi Yasuo 1893-1953

The Little Pond 1942

drawer 01-20, folder 10

Ogata Korin

Magnolia

Three Cranes

Three Turtles

drawer 01-20, Folder 3

Shunkosai Hokushu active 1809–1832

Seated Woman with Fan 1830

drawer 01-20, Folder 4

Tomioka Eisen 1864-1905

Sailboats by Sunset

drawer 01-20, Folder 20

Torii Kiyonaga 1742-1815

Man With a Tea Housemate

Nihonbashi at New Years

Theatrical Group

Women Going to the City

drawer 01-20, folder 11

Unknown Artists

Flower Cluster

Hillside Villa

Japanese Lady with Blossoms

Japanese Plants

Sacred Mountain and Treasure Stone Shrine Landscape

Leafy Plant

Mounted and Un-mounted Samurai Battling

Crossing a Bridge during a Festival in November

Rock and Flowering Branch

Mikoshi being Carried during a Festival in June

Two Japanese Men

drawer 01-20, folder 12

Urushibara Yoshijiro

Horse

Lobster and Clams

drawer 01-20, Folder 5

Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige 1797-1858

Row of Trees

drawer 01-20, folder 13

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1798-1861

Actor

drawer 01-20, Folder 14

Utagawa Toyokuni 1769-1825

Geisha Girl

Rich Man's Servant

drawer 01-20, Folder 15

Watanbe Shotei

Chrysanthemums

drawer 01-20, Folder 16

Yamakawa Shuho 1898-1944

Modern Matsume

drawer 01-20, Folder 17

Yoshida Hiroshi 1876-1950

Criptomeria Avenue

Evening at Hot Springs

On the Lake (Ike-No-Hata)

Series II. Brush Paintings 1958

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series is comprised of three paintings created by artist Shuho Kawashima as a demonstration of the technique of Japanese brush painting in Dr. Esther Shephard's SJSU class in Oriental Literature (English 119) on May 15, 1958.

The paintings are described by the artist as being depictions of "Pine, Bamboo, and Plum Blossom, the 'Three That Do Not Fear The Winter.'" "They are especially honored by the Chinese and the Japanese, the first two because they remain green through the season of 'Great Cold,' the last because it lives to a gnarled old age and each year puts out its blossoms very early in the spring."

Arrangement

The paintings in this series are in one folder.

drawer 01-20, folder 18

Kawashima Shuho May 5,1958

Physical Description: 3 brush paintings.

Collection Contents

Series I. Woodblock Prints

Series II. Brush Paintings