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Shukado News letter Hello from Shukado. This is Ikuko, Shukado staff. Ogenki desuka? To start off, I would like to say thank everyone to read our news letter always, our new letter started NEW style. We are thinking how to give you better service and our online store which will be gradually accepted as a highly trusted and secure website. We don' t want to tell you "Check your self" anymore. I hope you enjoy to read our NEW news letter and happy to visite our web gallery. If you are interested in these items, please check it out and please let us know. It's always our honor to assist you!! Recently Shukado news ! In last news letter, I introduced new artist Ikenaga Yasunari who we supported the first time. I would like to say thank you for your response about interesting his artworks. Unfortunately or fortunately his artworks were all sold out! but in this week, we receive few his fresh works from him. We will send you some picture of his artworks as soon as possible. I hope you will be excited to see his new works. -Ikenaga Yasunari- Anyway, in this week, we updated wonderful portrait of Kiyochika and others. We will join a ukiyo-e market next week, we have a hunch that we can purchase some interesting items there, so please don't forget to browse our site again! - Click here for our New arrivals - What we would like to do is; To build a firm friendship with you and to let you know about Japanese art more deeply. To listen to your requests and comply with as possible. To introduce new arrivals and treasured artworks. Click Here for more information about Japanese Fine Arts.com Please let us hear your voice. Don't you introduce how tto appreciate your collection in our news letter. We would like to write your introduction as article about us. At the same time, we are also collecting your opinion and comment. Category and price are acceptable.We will appreciate your frank comments. NOTHING LIKE CUSTOMER'S VOICES MAKE US HAPPY!! WE WELCOME YOU!! Address: Sone Bld. 7F, Ginza 6- 4-8, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061 Tel: 81-3-3569-3620 Fax:81-3-3569-3620

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Mainly I twitt in Japanese, but sometimes in English!

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Yesterday, we receive many orders from overseas. France,Spain,Greek,Australia and so on. Thank you deeply for loving Japanese Art!

Tax Investigation Cleared

The tax investigation staff came to our office and have checked our money in-out from 2 days ago to yesterday. We are making very honest money book so we won very complete result. Huhhh...

WE Editing Newest Catalog 22

We are editing the Next Catalog Shukado Voume 22 and will finish to do. Next week we are to print and publish new one.

On the next catalog, many Beauties of Ukiyoe , not print but actual painting.

By the way, I recently started to do "twitter".

This is my account.

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Please follow me! thanks.

Shukado Newsletter No.24 Matazo

Dear customers & friends,

This is Chiaki Tanaka of Shukado sending Shukado Newsletter No.24

First of all, check our updated works...
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New coming works!!

Recently, we undated two lovely works of Kobayashi
Kiyochika,
Yasui Nobukazu of "Victory of Pyongyan", three
Sumo brocade pictures and other special ukiyo-e.
We are sure when you click on our new arrivals

CLICK HERE
>>> http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/list/35/

you will absolutely discover a "Great BUY!!"

Please check it out!

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Today, I would like to introduce an artist to you.

His name is Kayama Matazo.
He passed away five years ago in 2004.


We can call him the last great artist of the modern art.
If the feature of his artworks can be described in a single phrase, it
would be "cold" paintings. And also, the catch-phrase to be given to his
artworks would be "a passion of minus 40 degrees".
Anyway, please click below so that you can get the image.


http://www.kayamaten.jp/midokoro/chapter3.html



The model looks as if she has been drained her blood and dressed a
velvet knit rather than a living woman. For people who get used to see
well-rounded body and eroticism in ordinary nude, this artwork would
look strange.


It seems Kayama defined his beauty as the one transformed in his way
from a traditional ukiyoe beauty which lines are particular as you
could see in the ukiyoe painted by Harunobu and Utamaro.

And this is what I think Kayama's representative artwork, Folding
screen of four seasons.

http://www.kayamaten.jp/midokoro/chapter2.html

There is an original folding screen created around 14-16 century that
Kayama could have referred to, which is called “Jitsugetsusansuizu”and
designated as an important cultural property.

http://rakutyuurakugai.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/01/biombo_390d.html


Please look at his other artworks in "the exhibition of Kayama Matazo" on
the website.
http://www.kayamaten.jp/

You could see his art style in which east and west culture strongly
conflict but at the same time get fused with tension.

The sense of worth supporting Kayama's art is I think "impermanence of
worldly things".

Japanese people traditionally respect the thought that all of things
should be changing without staying in the same state.

Glory of a prosperous family doesn't last long, flowers fall, and even a
beautiful woman dies, decomposes and becomes skeleton.

Probably Kayama's artworks express that human being is nothing more than
one of flowers which bloom in a destiny nothing can escape. Otherwise,
that would be his life philosophy reflected in his expression.

That's why his art world is separated from that of Renoir in which
beautiful girls or sunlight warm viewers. Such chilly cold but sharp
fineness invites us to the world of beauty beyond life and death.

It may be because of the difference in social background between Renoir
and Kayama, the former lived in wartime and the latter reached to the
top during the time of rapid economic growth and bubble economy. Renoir
longed for sunlight while Kayama watched the time of economic boom a
short distance away.

I wrote here because I would like to let you know there was Kayama at
one of tops in the Japanese modern art.

Chiaki Tanaka

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Shukado News Letter No.23 Hope

Dear Customers & Friends,
Hello from Ginza,Tokyo.

This is Chiaki Tanaka sending Shukado Newsletter No.23

Media's economic indicator is always low.

Even when I'm watching the streets in Tokyo through the window of taxi, I have an impression that the traffic is decreasing by approx. 20% compared to the last two years.
Although Tokyo has a bad reputation of the heavy traffic since long time ago, we can smoothly get to the destination these days.

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I will pick up some of our updated art works on our website.

An antique scroll painting depicting dancing beauty.
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/list2/108004920/
Female Monk by Utagawa Kunihisa
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/list2/108005710/
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I heard that the number of foreign tourists is decreasing as well.

So, couldn't we find any hope in the world ?

Of course, I don't think so.

One of the reasons I say so is that a lot of driving ranges are almost always full. It says that there still are a lot of people who can enjoy their hobby and spend money for that. Also, I have an opinion that the drop in stock prices provides a chance of making money. Although investors suffer latent loss, they would be buying other stocks not to miss the chance. A lot of companies should be rebuilding management in order to raise their profit.

It is true that car sale is sluggish in both Japan and the USA. But it is also true that a lot of people need cars in any situation. When the need and supply will have normalized, car industry would get back the proper balance.


As for our company, the number of visitors to our website, Japanese Fine Arts, is increasing little by little, besides the visitors who subscribed to the membership of our catalogue are steadily increasing. It says people who love art exist in any situation.

Cf. Request Page for our Catalogue SHUKADO
http://www.syukado.jp/en/catalog/


On the other day, I joined a lecture by Prof. Takeshi Yoro, famous brain scientist in Japan, and heard an interesting story. He said, in fact, in the world, what brain can grasp or what the science can explain is only a part of it. We should know about it.

Also, according to him, 70% of Japanese people think they would be trusting what the science has defined at 30 years from now while only 30% of American people say yes. I'm wondering if their religion affects on their thoughts. What about people in Europe or China? Anyway, it seems that Japanese people trust the science, theory too much.

Prof. Yoro also mentioned on the second law of thermodynamics, law of entropy increase, and said, once the world is given the order, it begins to bring chaos. In my opinion, the trading of CO2 emission is nothing but a logic and very dangerous.

Cf.Second law of thermodynamics by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics


The art is so-called a culture of right brain. It brings a chaotic element into the logical world. Therefore, it is what this left-brain society absolutely needs. That's why the art is never gone.

It looks that the need of art is lower in Japan than in the USA and Europe, but it was different before. Maybe Japanese people lost their mental richness at the defeat of war, and worked hard and saved money in order to catch up with other big countries. They also lost virtue, modesty and thoughtfulness. The fact that a lot of Japanese people trust the science looks signifying their heart is thirsty.

So please have an interest in Japanese art and say "Japan is a good country", and let us find it again. We are keep working not to be made fool of, not to be colonized, and now exhausted.

As you will find when looking at Japanese antiques, the Japanese culture used to be casual and playful. At the same time, it has also reflected thoughts of death and absence on its artworks. We should be proud of our history, but the number of suicide is about 30,000 a year, almost 6 times more than the death by traffic accident.

Cf. Suicide in Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan


Actually,I have expected to introduce you Kayama Matazo, one of important artists in Japan, passed away in 2000. But the prologue became too long. Next time, I promise.

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Last Pick Up of today.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Famous series of Tsuki-hyaku-shi / Hundred aspects of the Moon
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0311
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0302

Hiroshige's dynamic sceneries
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0227

Yoshitoshi's Newspapaer of "Hochi-Shinbun"
Bloody Newspaper print like the Sweeney Todd by Tim Burton...
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0225


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Shukado News Letter No.22

Dear customers and friends,

Good afternoon from Ginza,Tokyo,Japan!

This is Chiaki Tanaka sending Shukado News Letter No.22.

I'm so sorry that it's been long time since we issued the email newsletter last time.

Time flies. It's been already in the middle of February!


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I will pick up some of our updated art works on our website.


Utagawa Yoshitora, "Kanjin Oosumo Torikumizu" Triptych
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/list2/108005740/
** Sumo wrestlers' fights in the Big big play field in Meiji era!


Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's "Newspaper" Print.
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0213
**In 19th century, primitive newspapers were published with woodblock
prints. Hochi Shinbun News was very shocking and reported bloody
articles.
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Also, thanks to you, our overseas website marked the 2nd anniversary.
Since our sales have grown little by little in spite of this worldwide
economic recession, we have paused to realize that there are actually
lots of people who are interested in Japanese art in the world.

Now, senator Barack Obama assumed the presidency of United States the other day.
Most of Japanese including myself have happily welcomed this news.

This is because, under the huge controversy, Japanese government
dispatched Jieitai(the Self-Defense Force), Japanese military that is
banned to attack to other countries under the Constitution which
prohibit concerning any war without "self defense" , to Iraq during the
Bush administration.

Even though most of Japanese were skeptical about the invasion of Iraq,
the then Prime Minister Koizumi actively promoted the support toward
United States, as he politically and instinctively considered that
Japan would not be able to survive without the backup of United States.


Basically, Japanese rather wish to get along with as many countries as
possible and are poor at acquiring enemies. Surely, Japan internationally
experienced the several huge wars against foreign countries in the 20th
century. Also, we nationally went through power struggles and civil
wars until the 16th century. Nevertheless, it is well known that
Japanese are characteristically calm and prefer the harmony.

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Segawa Tsuyahisa (Enkyu)'s Beauty,hanging scroll,colors on silk
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/list2/109001900/
**The woman mysteriously standing alone has a figure of madness like
shown in her vacant-looking eyes.

Miki Suizan's Beauty, hanging scroll, colors on silk
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/list2/109002900/

Original Books of Katsushika Hokusai's Manga prints in 19th century.
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0209
**You can see Hokusai's painting philosophy that anything could be drawn
by composing simple patterns.
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Of course, we want to construct better relationships with Arabic countries.

The president Obama mentioned that he would place a great emphasis on
dialogue and mutual respect in the international relations. Japanese
are relieved about American attitude, which acknowledges the mistake of
the Iraq war.

I think that this point is really important. That is to say, the
cross-cultural communication cannot work out without the mutual respect.


In reality, since the 19th century when Japanese started to contact
with the modern Western culture, and even more after the World War II,
we have internally had the inferiority to the Western culture.

While Japanese cultures such as Zen, Bushido and Art are sometimes seen
with adoration from the other countries, Japanese rather yearn for
western cultures and make light of our own cultures.

However, it should be essential to understand good aspects of our
cultures by us and make people in Asia, Western cultures and the other
countries aware of them.

We expect that our items will play the important role as an ambassador
to extend the attraction of Japanese culture.


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We are editing now newest catalog "Japanese Art Catalog Shukado vol.18 "which
introduce more than 50 artworks.

Now subscribe to our catalog membership or request a trial one(vol.17)!
https://www.syukado.jp/en/catalog/

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See you, see you maybe next week!



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