Ukiyo-e by Torii Kiyonobu I 鳥居 清信 (1664–1729) painted around 1720. He is one of the founders of the Torii-school of painting and known for his Kabuki related motifs. This picture is named: 浮世つれずれ. Two women of the pleasure quarters are reading in their leisure time.
Source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Water lilies painted by Ohara Koson 小原 古邨 (1877-1945) ca. 1920. Ohara is known for his woodblock paintings often showing birds, fishes, trees, flowers and landscape motifs in different variations. He made several pictures of lotus and water lilies, which are very beautiful. Look at Art on Tuesday: Lotus.
Source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
This very famous ukiyo-e made by Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 (1797-1858) is called “Naruto Whirlpools in the Awa Province” (1855). Naruto is located at the Shikoku coast. The Naruto whirlpools 鳴門の渦潮 are a natural phenomenon, which can be watched even today. Utagawa Hiroshige painted another very similar ukiyo-e with wave motifs shown on Japan Kaleidoskop in August 2013. It is a View of Mount Fuji at Suruga Beach on the Pacific coast of Honshû.
(updated on July 9, 2023)
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