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This is the mini, CD booklet sized artbook that came with the special edition (or maybe the first printing) of the Japanese Playstation version of Symphony of the Night. Also came with a sexy sampler CD, but that's another story... Ah, the infamous Aria of Sorrow artbook. How does one obtain such a treasure? These days, buying it from a Japanese auction site is the only answer, but this book was originally given out to those people rabid enough to preorder the game. This isn't all Aria artwork, but a collection of illustrations for games from Symphony through Aria, including a number of character design sketches that show costume development.
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Fuji Arts Japanese Prints - Japanese Woodblock Prints and Decorative Arts
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Yoshitoshi (芳年, 1839-1892) is generally considered the last great master of the Japanese woodblock print ( ukiyo-e ) - and by some, one of the great innovative and creative geniuses of that artistic field. During his life, he produced a large number of prints, estimated by some authorities at over 10,000 in total; this included many series of prints, many of great merit, as well as numerous diptychs, triptychs, etc. This site attempts to provide an online catalogue raisonné of his entire output. His career spanned two eras - the last years of the old feudal Japan, and the first years of the new modern Japan. Like many Japanese, while interested in the new things from the rest of the world, over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many outstanding things from the traditional Japan, among them the traditional woodblock print. By the end of his career, Yoshitoshi was in an almost single-handed struggle against time and technology.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) Catalogue Raisonné