{"id":26715,"date":"2024-03-20T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=26715"},"modified":"2024-03-20T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:01:27","slug":"eight-views-of-cherry-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/03\/20\/eight-views-of-cherry-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Views of Cherry Blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chion-in (Sanmon) Temple Gate.<\/em><\/p>\n

My favourite season is here at last although we haven’t had much spring sunshine here today, just a lot of rain. I like the spring, as do the Japanese who have good reason to celebrate when the cherry blossom is in bloom at this time of year. I had an idea of making of post of ukiyo-e<\/em> prints devoted to cherry blossoms but this raised the question of where to begin…and where to stop when ukiyo-e.org<\/a> lists nearly 1,800 prints on the subject. Instead of looking for a selection of prints by different artists this is a series by a single artist, the very adept Hiroshi Yoshida whose views of India were featured here last year. The Eight Views of Cherry Blossom<\/em> date from 1935, and like most ukiyo-e<\/em> prints there’s considerable tone and colour variation in each print in the series depending on the aging of the paper or the quality of the printing. All of these prints may be seen in lighter\/darker copies on the print-selling sites.<\/p>\n

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Arashiyama.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hirosaki Castle.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In a Temple Yard.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sankeien Garden.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yozakura in the Rain.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Avenue of Cherry Trees.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Cherry Tree in Kawagoe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Fourteen views of Himeji Castle<\/a>
\n\u2022 One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Kato Teruhide, 1936\u20132015<\/a>
\n\u2022 Fifteen ghosts and a demon<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hiroshi Yoshida\u2019s India<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Hasui Kawase, 1883\u20131957<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Paul Binnie<\/a>
\n\u2022 Nineteen views of Zen gardens<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ten views of the Itsukushima Shrine<\/a>
\n\u2022 Charles Bartlett\u2019s prints<\/a>
\n\u2022 Sixteen views of Meoto Iwa<\/a>
\n\u2022 Waves and clouds<\/a>
\n\u2022 Yoshitoshi\u2019s ghosts<\/a>
\n\u2022 Japanese moons<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Hell Courtesan<\/a>
\n\u2022 Nocturnes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chion-in (Sanmon) Temple Gate. My favourite season is here at last although we haven’t had much spring sunshine here today, just a lot of rain. I like the spring, as do the Japanese who have good reason to celebrate when the cherry blossom is in bloom at this time of year. I had an idea … Continue reading “Eight Views of Cherry Blossom”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[12956],"class_list":["post-26715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-hiroshi-yoshida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6WT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}