Giftware & Lifestyle - Kunisada Kabuki Bando Kamezo

Giftware & Lifestyle

Kunisada Kabuki Bando Kamezo

• Dimensions: (hxwxd) approx. 23cm x 16cm x 16cm

Kabuki: Bando Kamezo

During his lifetime, Kunisada was considered the greatest ukyio-e artist. The son of a wealthy merchant from Edo, he learnt the trade at Utagawa Toyokuni's prominent studio. After the publication in 1808 of his first portraits of Kabuki actors, his fame rose to great heights. Commercially, he became the most successful woodblock artist ever.

Dimensions: (hxwxd) approx. 21cm x 12cm x 9cm

Designed for the Dutch family company Parastone, known for its faithful copies of important and famous works of art sculptures sold all over the world. The sculptures are made from stone and marble powder which is bonded through synthetic resin. This form of production ensures that the statues have a solid and durable quality.

Ukiyo-E
The world depicted by Japanese printmaking can be captured under one romantic, originally Buddhist denominator, the Ukiyo-e, or the flowing world - a world of fleeting amusement and pleasure - of everyday life as it played out between the 17th and 19th centuries in theatres, on the streets and during feasts and festivals.