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Fireflies in Art: Emphasis on Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Edo, Meiji, and Taishō Periods
Insects, 2022 Examining how insects are represented in artwork can provide insight into people’s perceptions and attitudes towards arthropods, as well as document human–insect interactions and how they change through time. Fireflies are well-known bioluminescent beetles (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of great cultural significance, especially in Japan.
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4-6, April-June 2024.Abstract This article seeks to account for the phenomenon where cultural productions are able to transcend different chronotopes and masquerade in myriad forms while sustaining an illusion of itself as a text. Using the Barthian distinction between work and Text as its framework, the article argues that multimodal semiotics offers a theoretically ...
Tong King Lee
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Natural and synthetic arsenic sulfide pigments in Japanese woodblock prints of the late Edo period [PDF]
Heritage Science, 2018 Abstract We recently described the use of an artificial arsenic sulfide pigment in Japanese woodblock prints from the Meiji period (1868–1912): we now expand on our previous work by investigating arsenic sulfide pigments used in Japanese woodblock prints of the late Edo period (1615–1868) and early Meiji period.
Stephanie Zaleski +2 more
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Historical subjects represented in the Feliks Jasieński collection of Japanese woodblock-prints
Art of the Orient, 2013 Jasienski started to buy Japanese woodblock-prints, lacquerware, bronzes and other kind of art pieces. This interest became a passion which he deepened by studying Japanese culture. He was interested in its history, aesthetics, and symbolism. Thanks to his knowledge and the sound advice of experts, Jasienski created a collection of high quality art ...
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eCAM: Proteomics, BioArt and Integrative Medicine?
, 2010 Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 1-2, 2010.
Edwin L. Cooper
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Why is the Geisha Hitting the Westerner? The Japanese Woodblock Print Genre of awate-e [PDF]
Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 2014 This paper attempts to bring to light a little-known genre of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), the awate-e (hysteria pictures). This genre of polychrome ukiyo-e (nishiki-e) belongs among caricatures because it treats current events in a satirical way.
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Original Japanese woodblock print
, 1963 Framed and matted original Japanese woodblock print signed by the artist, Shiko Munakata, presented to John Glenn during the 1963 NASA goodwill tour of Japan.Physical Dimensions: 21 inches high by 16 inches wide.Credit: John Glenn Archives, The Ohio ...
Munakata, Shiko
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Pioneers in Dermatology and Venereology: An interview with Professor John McGrath
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Volume 38, Issue 8, Page 1465-1468, August 2024.
John A. McGrath
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Fuzoku 32-so [picture] . Urusaso.
, 1888 Title from item.; 880-04 Other text on the print: ''Urusaso Kansei nenkan otome no fuzoku'.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5752842.
880-01 Taiso, Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892 , artist.
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, 1897 Title from item.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5739166. This Japanese woodblock print illustrates the well-known Kabuki actor, Ichikawa Sadanji I (1842-1904), in the Kabuki play entitled 'Nenoi ...
880-01 Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900 artist.
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