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Exhibition at Japan Society, Raikes, spider earth, and further notes on Kuniyoshi

After several weeks of leaving the blog, on behalf of some trips and other various reasons, would like to start the avalanche of posts I'll be uploading in the next two months (to somehow try to redeem myself of absence), with some excellent notes on Kuniyoshi exhibition that opened last month in the Japan Society Gallery in New York and other comments around one of the best known of the illustrator and part of the sample, The Raikes and ground spider.
The exhibition in question, which is open until June 13 this year, is one of the best and most complete examples of the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌 川 国 芳 (1797-1861) I've seen, and are organized in the last 15 years. Graphic entitled Heroes, Monsters Magic (1) , feeds mainly from the private collection of Arthur R. Miller, who also just donate to British Museum. Indeed, the chief curandor Japanese collection of this institution, Timothy Clark, was the one who made both curatorial work, as well as catalog , I highly recommend to those interested in Kuniyoshi and ukiyo-e general because not only is an updated study on the life and work of nineteenth century Japanese illustrator, but includes the odd discovery interesting, and images of rare books.
addition to the known tryptic Kuniyoshi themed warriors and phantasms (Musha-e 武 者 絵), subject to pitch to this illustrator poularidad had to compete against strong business drive and his contemporary illustrators the likes of Keisai 渓 斎 英 泉 Eisen (1790-1848), Utagawa Hiroshige 歌 川 広 重 (1797-1858), Katsushika Hokusai 葛 饰 北 斎 (1760-1849) or, its biggest rival, Utagawa Kunisada 歌 川 国 贞 ( 1786-1865), display also devotes considerable space to other aspects of their production as they were the "beautiful women" (Bijin-ga 美人 画), landscapes ( 风景画 fūkei-ga), the prints of actors in the theater 歌舞 伎 kabuki ( Yakusho-e 役 者 絵) and humor (especially from his "cartoons" or "crazy prints," 狂 画 Kyoga).

is fair to the latter category ( Kyoga), but also relates to the theme of Warriors (Musha-e ), which owns the image you want to make a few notes here: Yorimitsu Minamoto no-Ko or Tsuchigumo yōkai Yakata zu wo nasu 源 頼 光 公馆 土 蜘 作 妖怪 図 (ground spider produces monsters in the mansion Yorimitsu Minamoto), edited by Ibay Senzaburō 伊 场 屋 仙 三郎 in the summer of 1843. This triptych by Kuniyoshi is widely known on account of an alleged legal process raised against his illustrator and his editor, at the peak of the editorial controls Tenpo Reform. I am not interested here comment on the process in question, since on this topic abound in another future post (2) , but at least mention the time that people took this picture as an open criticism of the situation caused by the reforms, and the nightmares that the "ghosts" and the spider caused the rulers of the time.
Of course, it prácicamente impossible to determine whether this was the real intention or publisher Kuniyoshi, however, the pieces were withdrawn from the market and printing blocks destroyed, and this fact is just the trigger for an abundant production of reprints, as well as pirated versions and alternatives of the triptych, as I'm inserting here below. Of these, the first is likely to be the original version, the following three are illegal or pirated versions, and the last three are alternate versions of the illustrators Utagawa Sadahide 歌 川 贞 秀 (1807-1873), Toyohara Kunichika 豊 原国 周 (1835-1900), and Hokuki (dates unknown).

NOTES:
1. I put here some links of reviews that on about the exhibition and the catalog appeared in ArtRepublic , The New York Times and Suite101.
2. On this picture and the alleged legal process just finished an article that was delivered last week, and will appear in the journal Studies Asia and Africa, the Colmex , before the year is out. Once published, is included in the blog a link to your electronic file .