The subjects included within this blog have been grouped under the headings below to make locating them easier. Further articles relating to Japanese art, history and culture are located in A Trip to Old Edo on my main web site - a list is included below. Individual artists are not included in this index; if you wish to look up a specific artist, please use the search facility on the right-hand side of the blog, or look for the artist's name within the 'Categories' tag cloud on the left-hand side of the page.
List of Articles in 'A Trip to Old Edo':
Fusayōji - Tufted Toothpicks
How to Spot a Prostitute
Ohaguro - Beautiful Blackened Smiles
Seven Reasons for Divorce
Telling the Time in 17th-19th Century Japan
The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan?
Index of Blog Post Subjects:
Advertising:
A Woodblock Print to Advertise Woodblock Prints
December 1910 ~ A Courtesan of the Tenpō Era
Hear All About It!
Twelve Images of Beauty - Migita Toshihide
We're Having a Ball (Temari)
Albums, Illustrated Books & Kuchi-e:
An Album of the Twelve Zodiacal Signs by Seihō
Happy New Year!
Kuchi-e... Novel Images of Meiji Japan
Animals:
An Album of the Twelve Zodiacal Signs by Seihō
A Rat and Her Nibbles
A Reading Rat, by Miyashita Tokio
Big Goats From Little Rocks Do Grow
Auctions & Antiques Events:
Antiques for Everyone at the NEC Birmingham
Bidding on Benzaiten at Bonhams
Christie’s Asian Art Week
Extraordinary Prices Paid for Japanese Prints
Japanese Art and Design Sale at Christie's King Street
Reflecting on Reflective Love...
Reflective Love
The Hell Courtesan Goes Under the Hammer
Book News & Reviews:
Hokusai: Les Cent Vues du Mont Fuji
Impressions of Ukiyo-e
The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro
The Old Man Mad About Drawing
Utamaro: L’Almanach des Maisons Vertes
Utamaro Revealed Book Trailer
Utamaro Revealed - Updated Trailer
Calendar Prints:
December 1910 ~ A Courtesan of the Tenpō Era
Extraordinary Prices Paid for Japanese Prints
Twelve Images of Beauty - Migita Toshihide
We're Having a Ball (Temari)
Ceramics:
A New Kutani Bijin for My Collection
Bijin Leaping off the Page
Clothing:
Images of Beauty Throughout the Ages
Keeping Your Sleeves out of the Soup
Twelve Images of Beauty - Migita Toshihide
Film & DVD:
Utamaro and His Five Women
Japanese Fairy Tales:
Japanese Fairy Tale - The Goblin Spider
Japonisme:
Getting Reacquainted...
Imagining Japan
Looking Beyond Japanese Prints
Once Upon a Daydream...
Repaying the Compliment - Van Gogh & Gihachirō
The Cult of Beauty
The Espousal of the Rat's Daughter
The Great Wave: Europe Awash With Japanese Prints
Legal Matters:
The Divorce Temples of Mantokuji and Tōkeiji
Manners & Customs:
Before You Throw Out That Old Broom (tsukumogami)
Fancy a Spot of Shopping?
Hear All About It!
Images of Beauty Throughout the Ages
It's Written All Over Your Face (Physiognomy)
There Is Only One Sale
The Treasure Box of Greater Learning for Women
Twelve Images of Beauty - Migita Toshihide
Medicine & Dentistry:
Something to Get Your Teeth Into
Miscellaneous:
A Passion for Prints
Getting a Feel for Japanese Prints
Happy Holidays!
How Do I Tell if My Utamaro Print Is an Original?
How Much is My Utamaro Print Worth?
In Remembrance...
Jack Hillier: In Memoriam
Missing Masterpieces
Right Under My Nose!
So Why Now? Or More Importantly, Why Not Then?
There Were Geisha in My Christmas Stocking!
Was Utamaro Obsessed with Women?
Museums, Exhibitions & Lectures:
Estampes Japonaises: Images d’un Monde Éphémère
Hokusai - l'affolé de son art
Images of Unknown Japan
In search of Utamaro... in Brussels
'Revealing Yoshiwara' Illustrated Talk
Utamaro Revealed at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath
Myths & Legends:
Before You Throw Out That Old Broom (tsukumogami)
Big Goats From Little Rocks Do Grow
Lost Utamaro Paintings Found in a Tochigi Home
Myths & Legends: Kuzunoha
The Hell Courtesan Goes Under the Hammer
Pleasures & Pastimes:
Fancy a Spot of Shopping?
Row, Row, Row Your Boat...
There Is Only One Sale
Portraiture:
Portraiture in Utamaro's Prints
Prostitution:
Did Geisha Engage in Acts of Prostitution?
Images of Beauty Throughout the Ages
Reconstruction of a Yoshiwara Oiran Procession
The Twelve Hours of the Yoshiwara
Traditional Japanese Games:
Traditional Games: Hanetsuki
Traditional Games: Kazu-ken
Traditional Games: Konkonchiki
We're Having a Ball (Temari)
Wood Carving:
Hananuma Masakichi in the Cotswolds?
