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Yoshitoshi's Thirty-Six Ghosts
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First published February 1, 1992
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December 13, 2012
god my roommate just got this and it is the most handsome collection of ghouls ever!
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October 8, 2007
Yoshitoshi's Thirty-Six Ghosts is both an art and folklore book. Yoshitoshi did woodcut's for 36 different classic japanese ghost stories. A description faces each illustration. Caution,
the book may be hard to find.
the book may be hard to find.
July 25, 2013
The real strength of this volume is the shear size! Nice to see the images in a large folio format.
November 10, 2022
Terrific. Stumbled across this at the University Library (and that's why it's important to be able to browse shelves and not just have robots summon books, like 1/2 the ones at UBC) in Victoria, and fell in love. It's a relatively huge book—the reproductions are the same size (if not larger) than the originals. It's the 1980s, so the colour printing looks good (such a surge in good colour printing as of the late 70s, not surge what technology happened, but it's markedly better), and of course the content ... divine.
Yoshitoshi is generally thought to be the last great ukiyo-e artist in the traditional sense. He was both influenced by Western art which was starting to appear in Japan, and influenced it back again himself. (I'm a big fan of Art Nouveau, and you'd be hard-pressed really, other than subject matter, to tell the difference between these and Western posters in that idiom).
(Note: I'm a writer myself, so suffer pangs of guilt every time I offer less than five stars. These aren't ratings of quality, just my subjective account of how much I liked them: 5* = one of my all-time favourites, 4* = enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)
Yoshitoshi is generally thought to be the last great ukiyo-e artist in the traditional sense. He was both influenced by Western art which was starting to appear in Japan, and influenced it back again himself. (I'm a big fan of Art Nouveau, and you'd be hard-pressed really, other than subject matter, to tell the difference between these and Western posters in that idiom).
(Note: I'm a writer myself, so suffer pangs of guilt every time I offer less than five stars. These aren't ratings of quality, just my subjective account of how much I liked them: 5* = one of my all-time favourites, 4* = enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)
July 14, 2010
Inspiring art.
Intriguing stories.
Great writing.
...more later.
Intriguing stories.
Great writing.
...more later.
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