• Ichikawa Ebijūrō II (市川鰕十郎) in the role of Ume no Yoshibei (梅の由兵へ) in the play <i>Suda no Haru Geiko Katagi</i> [隅田春妓女客性]
  • Kataoka Gadō II as Furuteya Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛) on the right and Nakayama Bunshichi IV as Saiki Sukesaburō (才木助三郎)
  • <i>Outbreak of Fire Viewed from Hisamatsu-cho</i> (<i>Hisamatsu-cho kara miru shukka</i> - 久松町ニ而見る出火)
  • <i>Shini-e</i> of two actors, Ichikawa Hakuen IV and Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I, grieving the loss of a Ichikawa Ebizō V
  • The Night Lamp at Akiba (秋葉常夜燈)
  • Iwai Kumesaburō III [岩井粂三郎] as Inue Shinbei (犬江親兵衛) from the series <i>Loyal Heroes of the Hakkenden</i> (Giyū Hakkenden - 義勇八犬伝)
  • The wife of the last shōgun, Tokugawa Keiki (徳川慶喜公御簾中), number 20 (第ニ十), from the series <i>Biographies of the People in the Recent Years</i> (Kinsei Jinbutsu Shi - 近世人物誌)
  • Soganoya Gorō and Choroku in <i>Hizakurige</i> from the series <i>Portraits of Male Actors in Various Roles</i>
  • Fireflies (<i>hotaru</i> - ほたる) from the series <i>The Inner Precincts at Chiyoda</i> (<i>Chiyoda no Ōoku</i> - 千代田之大奥)
  • Shi Jin, the Nine Dragons (Kyūmonryū Shishin - 九紋龍支) struggling with the robber Chōkanko Chintatsu 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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