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...Japan, he befriended writers, curators and art dealers who did, and they steered him toward quality. His treasures, all hand-printed from wood blocks, encompass the best of ukiyo-e - "images of the floating world" of geishas, Kabuki actors and pleasure houses that flourished in 18th and 19th century Edo, as Tokyo was known. These include works by such giants as Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro. Rarer still are the fierce battle scenes from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 that Monet collected, as well as images of Westerners relaxing in Yokohama, the port city that became...
...Boston MC is so dedicated to his on-stage persona that he doesn’t give out his real name to reporters. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, he toured under another moniker—A-Train—with now-all-but-forgotten Boston greats like Edo G and The Almighty RSO. Today, he runs a website for local hip-hop artists, and acts as a historian and elder statesman for Boston...
...Europe” and Japanese History 260r, “Topics in Japanese Cultural History.” In the spring, he will tackle East Asian Studies 230, “The History of East Asian Medicine: Proseminar” and Japanese History 130, “Edo Japan in the History of Curiosity...
...throaty protagonist locked in combat with the rest of the orchestra. Hard driving and explosive, the piece erupts from a single rhythmic idea that propels the music forward relentlessly. Even the moody slow movement cannot dilute the restless surge, which continues undaunted right to the final bar. Under Conductor Edo de Waart, the San Francisco players gave the 'Cello Symphony a committed, accomplished performance...
...printmakers had learned how to run a sheet of paper over two identical wood blocks, each one inked in a different color. By the 1740s several blocks were being used for a single picture, and luxurious calendars featuring polychrome prints became popular as New Year's gifts among smart Edo residents. King of the calendar prints was Suzuki Harunobu, whose Beauty Taking the Air by a River (1765-66), of a slender young woman in a subtle rose kimono, is one of the best among his dozens in the show...