Roots and Foundations of Taiwanese Furniture
Taiwan in Retrospect ~ Article 1 How an Island Created Its Own Furniture Tradition Taiwanese furniture design traces its origins to early southern Chinese settlers, primarily from Fujian, who brought…
The Story of the Coin Chest Bed
An Old Guard and His Unusual BedIn all my years of collecting antiques, one of my most memorable experiences involved an old guard and his unusual “bed.”At the time, I…
Reading Taiwanese Furniture Through Its Timber
The Signature Timbers of TaiwanWhen you run your hand across a piece of antique Taiwanese furniture, you aren’t just touching wood—you are feeling a century of forest history, craft fusion,…
Five Famous Ukiyo-e Artists
Five Visions — Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi in the Bai Win Collection Masters of Ukiyo-e: Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi ~ Article 6 There Was Never One…
Signatures, Seals and Publishers
How to identify a Japanese ukiyo-e print The Small Details That Reveal Who Made a Japanese Woodblock Print, When It Was Published and What It Depicts ~ Article 5 Look…
Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō
On the Tōkaidō — Bai Win’s Hokusai prints allow us to follow surviving stages of the historic road between Edo and Kyoto. Following Japan’s Most Famous Highway Through the Woodblock…
Kabuki Stars in Ukiyo-e
Faces of the Stage — Kabuki actors and characters in Japanese woodblock prints from the Bai Win Collection. How Japanese Woodblock Prints Turned Performers, Roles and Theatrical Moments into Images…
Master of Ukiyo-e and Kabuki Prints
05382. 1852 Ohatsu and Iwafuji diptych — Utagawa Kunisada I. Drama Across Two Sheets — Utagawa Kunisada I, Bandō Shūka I as Ohatsu and Sawamura Chōjūrō V as Iwafuji, 1852.…
Prints from the Floating World
Kabuki Stars, Famous Roads, Heroes and Everyday Life in Edo Japan Ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints. Heroes and Everyday Life in Edo Japan ~ Article 1 Pictures of a Changing World…
A Temple on the Move
A Taiwanese Palanquin in the Bai Win CollectionAt first glance, this extraordinary object might appear to be elaborately carved furniture. It was something very different: a palanquin, built to carry…
The Artistic Ambition of Shanghai Advertising
When Commercial Art Became Fine Art ~ Article 6Beyond Selling the ProductHaving explored origins, fashion, modern life and artists, we arrive at works that push the genre even further. These…
Every Artist Leaves a Fingerprint
Learning to Recognize the Hands That Painted Shanghai ~ Article 5Behind Every Beautiful Woman Was an Artist Shanghai calendar posters can easily be mistaken for anonymous commercial images produced primarily…