{"id":13916,"date":"2013-06-20T02:13:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T01:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13916"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:51:14","slug":"nocturnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/06\/20\/nocturnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nocturnes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KOBAYASHI, Eijiro\u2013”A High Bridge by Night”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Night Scenes<\/em><\/a> is a series of 21 woodcut prints by Japanese artists published by Hasegawa\/Nishinomiya<\/a> in the early 1900s. Gorgeous work, and apparently popular enough for the prints to have been reissued many times since. These examples are from a print-selling site<\/a> with several extensive galleries of 20th-century Japanese prints.<\/p>\n

The High Bridge at Night<\/em> struck me for being remarkably similar to Whistler’s famous painting of Old Battersea Bridge, Nocturne: Blue and Gold<\/em><\/a> (1872\u201375). Whistler, of course, developed his mature style through looking at Japanese prints, and the Tate’s note<\/a> for his painting says it may have been derived from a Hiroshige print. The Hiroshige looks nothing like the High Bridge at Night<\/em>, however; was the latter based on an earlier print which Whistler had seen, or is the High Bridge<\/em> (which post-dates Whistler’s painting) an example of the Japanese stealing back some of their influence from the West?<\/p>\n

(Thanks to Wood s Lot<\/a> for the prints tip.)<\/p>\n

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ARAI, Yoshimune II\u2013”A Ferry Boat”<\/em><\/p>\n

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KOBAYASHI, Eijiro\u2013”A Pagoda by Moonlight”<\/em><\/p>\n

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SHODA, Koho\u2013”A Country Scene (with Moon)”<\/em><\/p>\n

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ARAI, Yoshimune II\u2013”Suma Beach in Moonlight”<\/em><\/p>\n

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SHODA, Koho\u2013”Married Rocks”<\/em><\/p>\n

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SHODA, Koho\u2013”Shrine Gate at Miyajima”<\/em><\/p>\n

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SHODA, Koho\u2013”Moonlit Sea”<\/em><\/p>\n

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