//…Thomas Hoepker…//
JAPAN. Kyoto. 1977. An oiran geisha in full dress at the Sumiya house in the Shimabara area. http://ift.tt/1OAgLY6

//…Shomei Tomatsu…//
“Eiko Ôshima, Actress in the Film Shiiku (Prize Stock),” 1961. http://ift.tt/1TC1xIL

//…Ando Hiroshige…// http://ift.tt/20HtTBA

//…Torii Kiyonaga…//
(1752-1815)
Torii Kiyonaga was a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Torii school. Originally Sekiguchi Shinsuke, the son of an Edo bookseller, he took on Torii Kiyonaga as an art name.
Bathhouse Women, 1780s. http://ift.tt/1Q3aubj

//…Noriaki Yokosuka…//
横須賀 功光
web: http://www.emoninc.com/artist_01_ny.html

verocskakoschsartcorner:

Noriaki Yokosuka   横須賀 功光

…Burt Glinn…
JAPAN.
1961. On the Inland Sea, a boat adrift in the reeds.

//…矢頭 保 Tamotsu Yatō…//
Tamotsu Yato (矢頭 保 Yatō Tamotsu?, 1928(?) – May 1973) was a Japanese photographer and occasional actor responsible for pioneering Japanese homoerotic photography and creating iconic black-and-white images of the Japanese male. He was a friend and collaborator of the writer Yukio Mishima and the film critic Donald Richie, as well as a long-term romantic partner of Meredith Weatherby, an expatriate American publisher and translator of Mishima’s works into English. Yato completed three volumes of photography.
via: wikipedia

artesens:

Kajikazawa dans la province de Kai – Kajikawaza in Kai Province, 1830
Woodblock

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

//…UTAGAWA Kunisada …//
（歌川国貞 二代 Japanese, also known as UTAGAWA Toyokuni Ⅳ, 1823-1880）
The famous Kabuki actor TAKEDA Harunobu (TAKEDA Shingen). From the series “Gishi Eimei-den no Uchi”. 義士英名伝之内, 1866.
Original woodblock print