Kuchi-e (Frontispiece Woodblock Prints)

Kuchi-e were title pages for novels. The pictures always refer to the story. Most important subjects were beautiful women (bijin) acting in romantic stories. Because Kuchi-e were also important advertising media for the books, they were always made carefully and luxuriously - in the old Japanese tradition - as original woodblock prints, often printed with special techniques as relief printing, glossy overprint or even printed with silver. Kuchi-e mainly were used in the time between 1895 and 1915.

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ANON

KEICHU

KEISHU

N° Y 10129

N° Y 11129

N° Y 12129

Portrait of a seated young, melancholy woman

Mother and daughter reading a book

Young beauty playing with a hagoita

KEISHU

HANKO

HANKO

N° Y 13129

N° Y 14129

N° Y 15129

A potter inspects a full kiln

Young seated woman knitting

Young woman bending over a water basin

EISHUN

FURYO

ANON

N° Y 16129

N° Y 17129

N° Y 18129

An older man is getting closer to a beautiful lady

Young couple

Portrait of a Bijin

TOMOTO

EIGYOKU

ANON

N° Y 19129

N° Y 20129

N° Y 21129

A beautiful lady of the Genroku period

The daughter jumps into the rough sea

Flowering Hydrangea

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