• Sawamura Tanosuke III as Urazato (浦里) on the right and Nakamura Shikan IV as Tokijirō (時次郎) on the left in the play <i>Akegarasu yuki no uchizato</i> (其廓夢夜烏 - Tokojirō and Urazato dream of a light snow)
  • View of Nihonbashi (<i>Nihonbashi no zu</i>: 江戸日本橋之図) from the <i>chūban</i> series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
  • Still Life at Table
  • Yosame Masaki (真崎): <i>Night Rain</i> (夜雨) at Masaki Shrine from the series <i>8 Famous Views of Edo</i> (江戸名所八景)
  • Shun 舜, #1 from the series, Juxtaposed Pictures of 24 Paragons of filial piety (<i>Nijūshikō mitate e-awase</i> -  二十四孝見立画合)
  • Bandō Hikosaburō V (坂東彦三郎) as Kanki (かんき) in <i>Kokusenya Kassen</i> (国性爺合戦) - right panel of three
  • View of Mishima (<i>Mishima no zu</i> - 三嶋之図) from the series <i>Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road</i> (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i> - 東海道五十三次之内)
  • <i>The Clever Type</i> (<i>Rikō sō</i> - りこう相), from the series <i>Thirty-two Physiognomic Types in the Modern World</i> (<i>Tōsei sanjūni sō</i> - 当世三十弐相)
  • Du Xing, the Devil-faced (Kirenji Tokō - 鬼臉兒杜興) from the series <i>One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Shuihuzhuan</i> (<i>Tsūzoku Suikoden gōketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori</i> - 通俗水滸伝豪傑百八人之一個)
  • Abalone, needlefish and peach blossoms from an untitled series known as the Large Fish  (<i>Uozukushi</i> [魚尽くし])

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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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