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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 6330788, member: 110350"]I have three very worthwhile books dealing with the influence on French Impressionists of Japanese woodblock prints: "Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan," by Helen Burnham (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014); "Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism," by Karin Breuer (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2011); and "Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower: A Turn-of the-Century Tribute to the City of Light," by Henri Riviere (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2009). Here's a page from the "Japonesque" book addressing the "packing material" theory: [ATTACH=full]1250967[/ATTACH]Here are some of my own Japanese woodblock prints that I happen to have images of on my hard drive. Only three showing sword hilts, I'm afraid. I'm not a huge fan of samurai prints. A Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada from 1838, depicting Kyoto station (from one of his series on the 53 stations of the Tokkaido Road) [Kunisada View of Kyoto (Kyôto no zu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi) 1838] [ATTACH=full]1250908[/ATTACH] A Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige from 1832-1834, depicting Cherry Blossom Viewing at Asaka Hill, from the series Famous Places in Edo, a/k/a Famous Places in the Bay Capital: [ATTACH=full]1250909[/ATTACH] A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada of the actor Nakamura Utaemon IV, dating from the 1830s-1840s, signed Gototi Kunisada ga (the signature he used until 1844): [ATTACH=full]1250916[/ATTACH] Another Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada, from 1854, entitled Autumn Stroll by the seller, but (according to my research), actually part of a triptych entitled Red Bridge Autumn, depicting the Tsutenbashi Bridge at Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto: [ATTACH=full]1250918[/ATTACH] Another woodblock print by Hiroshige, from 1848, of Fuchu Station, No. 20 from the series 53 Stations of the Tokkaido Road. [ATTACH=full]1250919[/ATTACH] A woodblock triptych print by Chikanobu of ladies engaged in scroll painting, from 1891 (Meiji 24): [ATTACH=full]1250923[/ATTACH] A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada from 1855 (when he was using the name Toyokuni), depicting Yokusone Heitaro or Hiratoro, portrayed by the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII, as a death tribute to the actor: [ATTACH=full]1250927[/ATTACH] A Japanese woodblock print from the early 20th century by the artist Ohara Koson, showing two mallards flying in front of a full moon: [ATTACH=full]1250963[/ATTACH] Another Chikanobu triptych entitled Excursion to the Hills, from 1895 (it's a bit difficult to see through the glass): [ATTACH=full]1250938[/ATTACH] I have quite a few additional Hiroshige prints, some of them mid-19th century originals, and others late-19th and early-20th century reprints of some of his more famous prints, including some from "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" -- concerning which I highly recommend the Brooklyn Museum book of full-size color reproductions of all of them, as well as the similar edition of his "Birds and Flowers" prints. But I don't have any decent images of them on my computer. The only Hokusai woodblock prints I have are those (in black-and-white) contained in the one original volume I have (Vol. 6, published in 1816) from his 15-volume Manga ["Random Sketches" -- not the current meaning!] series. Among my other woodblock prints and woodblock print books, my favorites include those by other artists including Kono Bairei, Shoda Koho, Imao Keinen, and Maekawa Bunrei, as well as a number of volumes in the famous Japanese Fairy Tale series from the late 19th century, containing woodblock prints by various artists, edited and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. And I have a couple of shelves of books of reproductions.[/QUOTE]

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