• View of Goyu (<i>Goyu no zu</i>: 御油之図) from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
  • Volume 3 of <i>A Record of the Benevolent Government at Ōgawa</i> (<i>Ōkawa Jinsei-roku</i>
 - 大川仁政録)
  • View of Hamamatsu (<i>Hamamatsu no zu</i>: 浜松ノ図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
  • A woman breast feeding a child while putting her hair up - from the series <i>Richly Colored Contemporary Fashions</i> (<i>Gokusaishiki jisei shitate</i> - 極彩色時世仕立)
  • Kamigashi-hime (神我志姫) transformed brigands into spiders then destroyed them
  • View of Hakone (<i>Hakone no zu</i>: 箱根之図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
  • Volume 1 of <i>Gaten Tsūkō</i> [画典通考]
  • Lovers enjoying the evening cool [のうりょうのだんじょ] from the series 'Secret Conversations with Courtesans' (<i>Keisei higo</i> - 契情秘語)
  • First Archery of the New Year (<i>Yumi hajime</i> - 弓はじめ) from the album <i>Saishiki mitsu no asa</i> (彩色美津朝) or 'Colors of the Triple Dawn'
  • Iwai Kumesaburō II (岩井粂三郎) on the left and Segawa Kikunojō V (瀬川菊之丞) on the right, both portraying <i>Yamadori seirei</i> (山鳥せいれい) or female mandarin ducks in the play <i>Sarukawa's gold-crested battle fan</i> (<i>Saruwaka Hisago no gunbai</i> - 猿若瓢軍配)

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Ukiyo-e Prints in the Mike Lyon Collection

Mike Lyon (artist b. 1951) was fortunate to have grown up familiar with Japanese prints. In his youth Lyon’s parents and grandparents displayed examples that certainly inspired his own artistic development. He began acquiring Japanese color woodcuts early in his career as an artist. The types of prints that feature most prominently among the many hundreds in Lyon's collection reflect the artist’s deep appreciation of the human figure and the expressive facial portrait. The vast majority of Japanese prints in the Lyon collection represent views of actors yakusha-e) and beautiful women (bijin-ga), and in particular the close-up, bust-length portraits of the same (okubi-e).

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