Yokai Manga Volume 2 Artists' Competition Edition (Seigensha Visual Bunko Series)
Categories：Art
Why are yokai, which are supposed to be scary, drawn so charmingly? Unraveling the mystery of yokai paintings, the last bastion of Japanese art history.
Due to its popular appeal and caricature-like or satirical expressions, "Yokai paintings'' have not been considered as a theme in art history until now. However, in Japan, it is a wide-ranging field that has been familiar to everyone from children to adults since ancient times, and it is also an important subject that is closely related to Japan's unique indigenous culture and religion, such as nature worship and folklore of each region.
This project aims to reconsider the characteristic aspects of Japanese art, such as laughter and play, by revisiting the genealogy of "yokai paintings," which have not been talked about as mainstream art in art history. It becomes an opportunity.
Yokai Manga [Volume 2] Artists' Competition Edition
Yokai paintings, rich in caricature-like expressions and full of satire, gained overwhelming support from the public, so to speak. Subculture of the Edo period.
Full of monster paintings (ukiyo-e) drawn by popular artists, including Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Kawanabe Kyosai.
Preface: Noi Sawaragi
Includes works: A collection of monster paintings by Katsushika Hokusai, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, and Kyosai Kawanabe, popular ukiyo-e artists from the Edo period to the early Meiji period.
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Yokai Manga vol.2
Due to its popular appeal and caricaturish, satirical content, yokai-ga (literally, pictures of monstrous creatures ? yokai) have been treated as a minor current within Japanese art history.Enjoyed by the common people of Japan since ancient times, yokai-ga have been valued also for their associations with the nature beliefs and folk intimate traditions that are the native culture and religion of Japan.This publishing project is reconsidering the lineage of y?kai-ga in order to offer a fresh look at the distinctive aspects of comicality and humor in Japanese art.
Kyoko Wada (Author)
Publisher: Seigensha (2012/4/4)
Release date: 2012/4/4
Language: Japanese
Paperback: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 486152329X
ISBN-13: 978-4861523298
Dimensions: 14.6 x 10.6 x 2.4 cm
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