r/japanart

I think vintage from around 1960s.

On the right side of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's work depicting Taira no Kiyomori's death, there is a man dressed in yellow clothes, holding a long sign with some characters on it. Does anyone know what they mean?

Most people know that Japanese prints influenced Van Gogh, but I was surprised to discover just how deeply they affected Claude Monet too.

At Giverny, Monet filled entire rooms with ukiyo-e prints by Hiroshige, Hokusai, Utamaro and Kunisada. His famous Japanese bridge, water garden and even parts of the Water Lilies compositions seem tied to ideas he absorbed from Japanese art.

The more I looked into it, the more obvious it became:

• asymmetrical compositions
• cropped views
• reflections replacing horizons
• decorative surfaces
• atmospheric rain and mist effects

Even Monet’s house itself feels like a dialogue between Impressionism and Japanese aesthetics.

I ended up researching the rooms at Giverny, identifying prints on the walls, and tracing how they fed into paintings like the Japanese Bridge and Water Lilies series.

Would love to know whether others think Monet was the European artist most transformed by Japonisme?

Please help me identify painter of this item, i found in Thailand second hand shop.

I recently bought a couple of these Japanese prints at a sale from a private vendor. They had no further info about these prints apart from the japanese origin.

I passed the pictures to Gemini which told me they should be haiga prints (illustrated haikus) from the Edo or Meijin era of Japan but i trust AI only to a point and i would love to be able to find out more from a reliable source.

I also used google lens to look up for similiar prints but did not find one that matched the style correctly.

Does anyone have any idea?

I think it’s a poem because there’s a seal of someone 😭 but I can’t read cursive