Note: We would like to include all of the known artworks by Rakusan in this catalogue, but not all of the
illustrations and discussions are available for presentation at this time. As other sections are prepared they will be added to the site.
Rakusan.net currently illustrates at least one image of all of the known Rakusan woodblock prints in general circulation. If you have
information about any print designs not shown, or about any original paintings of any subject, please contact us.
All of the prints shown actually have margins. However the margins in these illustrations have been cropped to display the design portions
of the images at a larger scale. This cropping artificially exaggerates the differences in scale among the different fan design silhouettes.
It also truncates the title-captions and watermarks of the 100 Series designs. All of the original title-captions will be illustrated in a
separate file in a later addition to this site.
Most of the original paintings and woodblock prints produced by Rakusan are in sets or series. If his original titles and arrangements are
known, this catalogue uses them; otherwise titles and arrangements are supplied here as indicated. The numberings for the 100 Series and
for the 36 Set are original to Rakusan and indicate the order in which the woodblock prints were first published.
To open individual galleries, click on the thumbnail illustration in the following chart. Within each gallery, to view a larger image,
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