Thursday, March 25th, 2010
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi Show Completely Awesome

!!!!You should be running, not walking, to the Japan Society, for this new exhibition of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. This print is from 1848! And yet it couldn't look more amazingly contemporary. I mean LOOK AT THAT. (The Japan Society, by the way, is now free admission on free Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. The more you know!) [Above: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, "Morozumi Masakiyo Kills Himself in Battle," c. 1848. Color woodblock print, 14 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. American Friends of The British Museum (The Arthur R. Miller Collection) 15009. Photo © Trustees of The British Museum.]

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DoctorDisaster (#1,970)

That is some seriously Kill Bill shit right there.

Oh man, I've always loved Kuniyoshi's stuff. He's kind of the Rob Zombie of ukiyo-e, like he's always thinking "OK, but how could I make this even more weird and insane? I know! A fifty-foot tall skeleton ghost!" Awesome.

deepomega (#1,720)

Every hour on the hour a geyser of blood erupts somewhere in Japan.

sajrocks (#2,067)

"The Awl" bump in action!:

"Epics and Erotica From a Grandfather of Anime"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/arts/design/16kuniyoshi.html

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