• Onoe Kikugorō V as the ghost Seigen (清玄) and Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Sakura-hime (折琴姫) from the series <i>One Hundred Roles of Baikō</i> (<i>Baikō hyakushu no uchi</i> - 梅幸百種之内)
  • Front and back covers
  • Saint Mayouwa Says Indecisiveness Is Bad (<i>Mayou wa son ja</i>) from the series <i>Sixteen Wonderful Considerations of Profit</i> (<i>Myō densu jūroku rikan</i> - 妙でんす十六利勘 迷者損者)
  • Matsumoto Kōshirō V (松本幸四郎) as the ghost of Akushichbyōei Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清) reflected in a mirror from the series <i>Modern Mirror of Actors</i> (<i>Yakusha Tosei Kagami</i> - 役者當世鏡)
  • 'Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor' (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
  • Nakamura Utaemon III as Jiraiya in the play <i>Yaemusubi Jiraiya Monogatari</i> [柵自来也談] (<i>The story of Jiraiya at the weir</i>) - left-hand panel of a diptych
  • Sound of a Bell (<i>Suzu no Ne</i> - 鈴の音) key block or <i>tameshizuri-e</i> from the series <i>Ten Types of Female Nudes</i> (<i>Rajo jūsshu</i> - 裸女十種)
  • Taira no Koremochi (余吾将軍平維茂) killing Kijo the demon-woman at Togakushi-yama
  • Bunraku puppet representing Osome
  • Zhang Shun, the White Streak in the Waves (Rōrihakuchō Chōshun - 浪裡白跳張順) from the series <i>Mirror of Heroes of the Shuihuzhuan</i> (<i>Suikoden gōketsu kagami</i> - 水滸傳豪傑鏡)

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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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