『百日紅』
Miss Hokusai
Miss Hokusai 『百日紅』
• Manga (comic) by Hinako SUGIURA
• 1983–1987 in Manga sandē (Manga Sunday)
• Animated movie in 2015
• dir.: Keiichi HARA
Edo period (1603–1868)
• “Tokugawa” period – Tokugawa shogunate
• Pre-modern Japan – kinsei 近世; “centralized feudalism”
• Time of peace and …
• isolationist foreign policies
• economic growth
• strict social order (4 main social classes of samurai, peasants, craftsmen and merchants)
• development of arts and “townsmen culture”
Ukiyo 浮世
• “Floating world”
• Mass culture of popular entertainment, fashion,
pleasures of everyday urban life…
• Woodblock prints ukiyo-e 浮世絵
• Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760–1849)
• 36 Views of Mount Fuji
• Hokusai manga
36 Views of Mount Fuji
Process of making an ukiyo-e print
• Distribution of the labor:
1. The painter created a painting
2. The woodcarvers carved the wooden matrices of the print
3. The printer printed the pictures
4. The publisher commissioned, promoted and distributed the prints
• Artists/artisans ?
Other painters and genres
• Painters: Utamaro, Hiroshige, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi…
• Genres:
• pictures of beautiful women (bijinga)
• pictures of kabuki theatre actors (yakusha-e) and sumō wrestlers
• pictures of warriors (musha-e) and historical scenes
• pictures of nature (kachō-e) and landscapes
• “pictures of spring” (shunga)
Shunga 春画
• “Pictures of spring”
• Genre of erotic ukiyo-e prints
• Function as a pornographic material
Lesson from shunga
• 10/2013–01/2014: Exhibition of shunga in The British Museum
• 09/2015–12/2015: Exhibition in Eisei-Bunko Museum in Tokyo
• 02/2016–04/2016: Exhibition in Hosomi Museum in Kyoto
• POP culture → classical art