筆魂
Subtitle: sen no inryoku, iro no maryoku : Matabē kara Hokusai, Kuniyoshi made = The soul of the brush : the line's pull, the color's spell from Matabei to Hokusai and Kuniyoshi
By: Sumida Hokusai Bijutsukan hen ; Naitō Masato kanshū, sippitsu [and many others]
Edition: Shohan.
Publisher: Seigensha
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Kyōto
Language: jpn; eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9784861528323
Subjects: Ukiyoe; Exhibitions; Japanese Painting; Painters; Edo period; Meiji period
Other titles: Fudedamashii; Soul of the brush : the line's pull, the color's spell from Matabei to Hokusai and Kuniyoshi
Description: This exhibition presents 125 brush-drawn paintings by more than sixty ukiyo-e artists. They include Iwasa Matabei, who is regarded as the precursor of ukiyo-e painters, Hishikawa Moronobu, the founder of ukiyo-e, plus Kitagawa Utamaro, Tōshūsai Sharaku, Katsushika Hokusai, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. The abundance of works on display includes Important Cultural Properties, Important Works of Art, and about forty works being displayed for the first time, including newly discovered or rediscovered works. -- From museum website
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Sumida Hokusai Bijutsukan, February 9-April 4, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227).

In Japanese and English.