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JG Auction is announcing our next live auction on Saturday 21st May 2022 at 2:00 GMT. On sale will be a wide selection of original Japanese ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) including works by Hiroshige I Utagawa, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, Chikanobu Yoshu, and Hiroshi Yoshida.Registration can be done through ...

   Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji, written in the early 11th Century, is considered to be perhaps the world’s first novel. It’s influence spans widely across Japanese culture, including visual arts. In the Edo period, a whole new genre of ukiyo-e was birthed after the publication of Ryū ...

   This month at the Japanese Gallery, we have had some exciting new acquisitions centring around the Musha-e genre.   Musha-e are prints that depict samurai and warriors, often in battle. The famous woodblock print artist Kuniyoshi Utagawa (1798 - 1861) was a dominating force within this genre ...

This New Year, we are welcoming in the adventurous, courageous and risk-taking Tiger of 2022. The Year of the Tiger (寅年 tora doshi), specifically the water tiger, begins on 1st February according to the lunar calendar. The Chinese zodiac not only has a cycle of twelve animals, but also the ...

Gishi-sai Festival - The 47 Faithful Samurai Gishi-sai is an annual winter festival held at Sengaku-ji Temple in Tokyo. It honours 47 brave rōnin (浪人, masterless samurai) who gave their lives to avenge their lord and master in an event known as the Genroku Akō Incident (元禄赤穂事件 ...

JG Auction is announcing winter timed auction finishing on Sunday 5th December 2021 at 5:00 GMT. On sale will be a wide selection of original Japanese ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) including works by Hiroshige I Utagawa, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, Chikanobu Yoshu, and Hiroshi Yoshida.Registration can be ...

With Japan hosting the Paralympic Games this year, the world’s attention has been on disability. The exhibition Access + Ability in the Arts, Design & Technology highlights the people, programmes and products that change the way we think about access for all in the arts and in everyday life ...

This summer Japanese Gallery Kensington had the exciting opportunity to collaborate with a hedge fund investment company based in London and use their corporate exhibition space for a special display of original woodblock prints. The exhibition showcased prints from the 18th century such as those ...

JG Auction is announcing the next live auction to be held on 21st of August 2021 at 2:00 GMT. On sale will be a wide selection of original Japanese ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) including works by Hiroshige I Utagawa, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, Chikanobu Yoshu, and Utamaro Kitagawa.Registration to the ...

As part of their UT Graphic T-shirt collection, Japanese wear retailer Uniqlo are celebrating the arrival of their latest range, Hokusai Fujiyama. In conjunction with this and exclusively at Uniqlo Oxford Street store in London, you can now see on display original book volumes from Hokusai ...