• Volume 3 of <i>Gaten Tsūkō</i> [画典通考]
  • Double portrait of Ichikawa Ebizō V (市川海老蔵) as Toneri Matsuōmaru (舎人松王丸) on the right and Ichikawa Gangyoku I (市川眼玉) as Shundō Genba (春藤玄蕃) on the left from an untitled series of paired actors on poem slips (<i>tanzaku</i>)
  • Bust portraits of Ichikawa Shōchō II as Umegawa [梅川] and Kataoka Gadō IV as Chūbei [忠兵衛] in the play 
<i>Meido no Hikyaku</i> ('The Courier from Hell' - 冥途の飛脚)
  • Making Chinese Soldiers Shiver (<i>Shinbei no hiyakasare</i> 清兵の冷やかされ ) from the series 'Hurrah for Japan! One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs' <i>Nihon banzai hyakusen hyashushō</i> (日本万歳 百撰百笑)
  • View of Fujieda (<i>Fujieda no zu</i>: 藤枝ノ図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
  • View of Miya (<i>Miya no zu</i>: 宮之図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
  • Nakamura Utaemon III (中村歌右衛門) as Kanawa Gorō Imakuni (金輪五郎今国)  and Arashi Koroku IV (嵐小六) as Omiwa (おみわ) in <i>Imoseyama Onna Teikin</i> [妹背山婦女庭訓 - <i>Mount Imo and Mount Se:An Exemplary Tale of Womanly</i>] (state 3)
  • Iwai Kumesaburō III [岩井粂三郎] as Inue Shinbei (犬江親兵衛) from the series <i>Loyal Heroes of the Hakkenden</i> (Giyū Hakkenden - 義勇八犬伝)
  • Onoe Kikugorō III [三代目尾上菊五郎] holding an open fan decorated with plum blossoms
  • Party on the <i>daifuku</i> (大福) pleasure boat

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Ukiyo-e Prints in the Mike Lyon Collection

Mike Lyon (artist b. 1951) was fortunate to have grown up familiar with Japanese prints. In his youth Lyon’s parents and grandparents displayed examples that certainly inspired his own artistic development. He began acquiring Japanese color woodcuts early in his career as an artist. The types of prints that feature most prominently among the many hundreds in Lyon's collection reflect the artist’s deep appreciation of the human figure and the expressive facial portrait. The vast majority of Japanese prints in the Lyon collection represent views of actors yakusha-e) and beautiful women (bijin-ga), and in particular the close-up, bust-length portraits of the same (okubi-e).

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