• '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)
  • Triptych of Ichikawa Danjurō VII (市川団十郎) as Gantetsubō (願鉄坊) on the left, Segawa Kikunojō V (瀬川菊之丞) as Dote no Oroku (土手のお六) in the middle and Sawamura Gennosuke II (沢村源之助) as Denbei (伝兵衛) on the right
  • The actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I (延若) with a poem card
  • Kamigashi-hime (神我志姫) transformed brigands into spiders then destroyed them
  • Ichikawa Danzō V (市川団蔵) as the hermit Inumura Daikaku Masanori (犬村大学礼儀) from the series  <i>Satomi ke Hakkenshi no hitori</i> (里見家八犬士の一人)
  • Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助) struggling with three <i>kappa</i> on a riverbank with another swimming in the river
  • Arashi Rikan II as Miyagi Asojirō in the play <i>Courtesan playing the Tsukushigoto</i> (<i>Keisei Tsukushi no Tsumagoto</i> - 傾城筑紫爪(?))
  • Asao Tomozō II (浅尾友蔵) as Sawai Jōgorō (沢井城五郎) with a gun - from the play <i>Igagoe Norikake Gappa</i>
  • Arashi Rikan II as Miyamoto Musashi in the snow in the play <i>Katakiuchi Nitō Eiyuki</i> [復讐二島英雄記]
  • Streetwalker (<i>Tsujigimi</i> - 辻君) from the series <i>Comparison of Present-day Beauties</i> (<i>Jisei bijin kurabe</i> - 時世美人競)

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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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