It's a groove. The geisha, who bent over and played the koto, looked like a keyboardist. And the zatoh(blinded monk), who swivels his head around and plays the shamisen with great gusto, is probably a guitarist and vocalist. The image above is Toyokuni Utagawa's "Koto Shamisen Tsure-biki (Playing the Koto Shamisen together)" (19th century). I think I saw the soul of the Japanese people here.

ノリッノリですね。体をかしげて琴を爪弾く芸者はまるでキーボーダーみたい。そして首を振り回し豪快に三味を演奏する座頭は、ギター兼ボーカルという所でしょうか。画像は歌川豊国の「琴三味線連れ弾き」（１９世紀）。日本人のSoulというものをここに見た気がします。

Aya Takano: The Way to Revolution (2008)

What a cool sense of perspective. It's always a pleasant surprise when the 3-D pops up in a predominantly flat medium!

From "The Moon and a Hundred Figures" by Hounen Tsukioka "Moon over the red light district" 1886

月岡芳年『月百姿　郭の月』1886年

Utagawa Hiroshige, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

I think it was put 10 million years ago just for cats

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Nakameguro - Tokyo, Japan

Badass!

Matt Frank's (aka KaijuSamurai) ukiyo-e-style cover for Godzilla: Rulers of the Earth Volume 5, featuring King Caesar!

グラフィックデザイナー　土方重巳の世界　Graphic designer : Hijikata Shigemi

Absolutely beautiful use of color

TSUCHIYA KOITSU | SPRING SNOW, KYOTO MARUYAMA

Woodblock print, designed 1936 [via]

Kumoi Cherry Trees

Hiroshi Yoshida

color woodblock print, 1926

How cool is this! I love to see this type of creativity - a modern sort of ukiyo-e.

If you're an indie artist who works with this style and would like to collaborate with IKB, hit me up! I'd love to feature your art in some way :D

Umi Zatō

2013

Matthew Meyer

藤（前回使わなかったやつ）

ボツ写真集

Japanese dragonfly helmet, 17th century

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Girl’s ceremonial kimono. 1925-1935, Japan.  The Kimono Gallery. A small chirimen (crepe) silk kimono created for a girl for either the “ohichiya” naming day ceremony on the 7th night after birth, or alternately, for the miyamairi Shinto shrine initiation ceremony held about one month after birth. 34” from sleeve-end to sleeve-end x 36” height. The Art Deco art stenciled onto this child’s kimono is extremely rare and unusual – the girls parents or grandparents were obviously open to new ideas, as ceremonial garments such as this one typically exhibited traditional motifs. Japanese artists influenced the arrival of Art Deco in the West, however, the artistry on this kimono was at least partly impacted by art developments in Europe and the U.S.

Tatsumi Shindo is within a 3-minute walk from Monzen-Nakacho Station in Koto-ku, Tokyo.

It is a bar district with a Showa era atmosphere.

東京都江東区門前仲町駅から徒歩３分圏内の辰巳新道。

昭和の香りが漂う飲み屋街です。

Red Fuji with Red Lenticular Clouds

April 2024 JAPAN HOKKAIDO SAPPORO

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