<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:xstep="http://www.xstep.biz/rss/"><channel><title>Ayaka Wada(ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/</link><language>ja</language><item><title>Interview with Ayaka Wada to Celebrate the Launch of her New Book, “Rediscovering Japan Through Art” (ODYSSEY BOOKS INC.) – Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) X Takamasa Sakurai (Producer)</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/special.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[Following on from her 2014 publication that shed a fresh new light on the fine art book industry, “Otome no Kaiga Annai” (PHP Shinsho), on the 12th of March 2016, ANGERME idol group leader, Ayaka Wada, will release her second book, entitled, “Bijutsu de Meguru Nippon Saihakken ~ Ukiyoe, Nippon-ga kara Butsuzou made” (Rediscovering Japan Through Art: From Ukiyo-e and Japanese Paintings, to Buddhist Sculptures) (ODUSSEY BOOKS INC.). ]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e" Vol.10 Eizan Kikugawa "Fashionable Decorations for the Five Seasonal Festivals: Iris Festival"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/010.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[After almost a year of its serialization, we’ve now reached the final installment in the “Ukiyo-e” series.]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e": Signed Book Giveaway! Here are the Winners!</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/present.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e": Here are the winners of the signed copies of Ayaka Wada's (ANGERME) book "Otome no Kaiga Annai"!]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e" Vol.09 Monet "La Japonaise"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/009.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the great, great influences on the progression of my beloved impressionist movement was ukiyo-e. If ukiyo-e didn’t exist, then perhaps neither would impressionism.]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e" Vol.08 Eisen Keisai "Tamaya-uchi Hanamurasaki"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/008.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[I first heard of the late Edo period artist, Eisen Keisai, in the winter of 2014, when I was on a visit to the special exhibit, “Ukiyo-e: A Journey Through the Floating World,” at the Edo-Tokyo Museum. My first impression when I saw his work was, ‘It’s blue!’ Well it was indigo blue to be exact, but it was almost like it had color and it didn’t at the same time and it really just seemed to jump out at you. ]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e" Vol.07 Kunisada Utagawa "Late Summer on the Sumida River"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/007.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[“This time, let’s go to the Utagawa Kunisada exhibition that’s currently running and do a story on that,” said Takamasa Sakurai, the producer of this column, and so together we went to the Ōta Memorial Museum of Art in Harajuku.]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e" Vol.06 Kiyonaga Torii "Cooling on Riverside"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/006.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[Kiyonaga Torii was a highly popular ukiyo-e artist in Edo in the second half of the 18th century. He stands alongside of Harunobu, Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, and Hiroshige as one of the six great artists of ukiyo-e. ]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e" Vol.05 Toshusai Sharaku "Actor Otani Oniji 3rd as the yakko Edobei"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/005.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[Have you ever looked over a painting by a famous artist on display at an art gallery or art exhibition and found yourself wondering what makes this painting a famous painting? Do we look at these paintings with such appreciation because the artist is famous and has received praise from people around the world? Famous paintings are famous because society and all the textbooks and guidebooks tell us so. That’s basically it.]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada(S/mileage) presents "Ukiyo-e" Vol.04 Hiroshige Utagawa ”The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Evening Squall at Shono”</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/004.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[I always get a little bit excited whenever it starts to rain. The reason being, I get to use my Monet "Water Lilies" print umbrella. It's no so fun when it suddenly starts to rain and I'm unprepared, though. The only thing you can do at that point is run. And that’s the exact moment depicted in “Evening Squall at Shono,” one of the ukiyo-e prints in Hiroshige Utagawa's famous series, "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido."]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e"  Vol.03 Utamaro Kitagawa "Young Lady Blowing on a Poppin"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/003.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[In modern-day terms, Utamaro would be like one of the current, popular photographers who takes photos for idols and models. Utamaro was active in the 1790s, when ukiyo-e was in its heyday. It was definitely a generation full of superstars. <br />]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada (ANGERME) presents "Ukiyo-e"  Vol.02 Hokusai Katsushika "Mishima Pass in Kai Province"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/002.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings flourished in Japan’s Edo period (1603–1867), and there was perhaps no greater superstar of the ukiyo-e world than Hokusai Katsushika.]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item><item><title>Ayaka Wada(S/mileage) presents "Ukiyo-e"  Vol.01 Harunobu Suzuki "Couple Under Umbrella in the Snow"</title><link>https://asianbeat.com/en/ukiyoe/001.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[Harunobu Suzuki’s “Couple Under Umbrella in the Snow” first taught me how amazing ukiyo-e paintings truly are. I saw the original painting for myself in 2014, at the “Ukiyo-e: A Journey Through the Floating World” exhibit at Edo-Tokyo Museum.]]></content:encoded><xstep:image>https://asianbeat.com/files/2014/12/f5495718837f0c.jpg</xstep:image></item></channel></rss>
