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EXPERIENCE BEAUTIFUL JAPANESE ART
Tokyo, Japan, April 6, 2009 - Appliya Inc. is proud to announce two new applications that allow everyone to experience the full beauty of historic Japanese art. These applications bring you the long heritage of the traditional Ukiyo-e art form using the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Ukiyo-e Beauties features art taken directly from The Chiba City Museum of Art, which hosts one of the world's most famous Ukiyo-e collections. Images of these rare and valuable pieces of art are not available online and, unlike most digital presentations of Ukiyo-e works, our app features artwork that accounts for the fading effects of time, and we present these pieces with accurate colors that have been restored to their original clarity. This is the first real eBook for Ukiyo-e with such attention paid to original colors.
The world's leading authority on Ukiyo-e prints, Professor Tadashi Kobayashi, supervised the color restoration process and creation of the Japanese text descriptions of the art pieces. Professor Robert Campbell of Tokyo University, another top researcher in Ukiyo-e, guided the creation of accurate English text that provides detailed discourse on the history and influence of the artwork. Beginners and Ukiyo-e experts alike can enjoy our presentation of this unique art form. This is truly the best way to view the highest quality classic Japanese art!
Features:
- 5 paintings and 20 woodblock prints, all in stunning 1150 x 800 resolution
Enjoy beautiful depictions of old Japanese life, including the Geisha
- 4x Zoom!
Fully appreciate the exquisite quality and texture of our high-resolution images with amazing zoom levels.
- Descriptions and notes from the top experts in the field
This app maintains the greatest authenticity with the involvement of
Professors Kobayashi and Campbell, two of the world's most respected
experts in the art form.
- Enjoy original colors!
The utmost care and attention has been paid to display these
historic treasures as they would have been viewed hundreds of years
ago.
 "Ukiyo-e Beauties" cover page |
 "Ukiyo-e Beauties" table of contents |
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 "Ukiyo-e Beauties" picture view |
 "Ukiyo-e Beauties" description |
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About Curators
Tadashi Kobayashi
Professor at Gakush?in University and Director of Chiba City Museum of Art, and Chair of International Ukiyo-e Conference.
A world authority on Japanese art history, Professor Kobayashi is also at the center of international ukiyo-e studies. He has discovered and researched countless ukiyo-e prints at museums around the world. He is among the first academicians to treat ukiyo-e not just as craftsman work but as fine art, and has gained esteem for treating shunga (seductive ukiyo-e), for the first time, as an academic discipline. His efforts at discussing art in plain language have been highly acclaimed.
Robert Campbell
Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Fine Arts (Japanese Literature, The Department of Comparative Literature).
Professor Campbell is one of the forerunners in research on the relationship between Edo (Early Modern) and modern literature. He has produced many great contributions to these fields while being one of the very few foreign faculty members teaching Japanese literature, in Japanese, at the prestigious national academic institutions. His interests lie in poetry, prose and in the art, philosophy, and media which are associated with poetry during the mid-Edo to Meiji periods of Japan. He has approached head-on a wide variety of issues concerning painting, literature, political science and print media in an interdisciplinary method, conveying the fascination of Japanese literature and fine arts through a wide range of media such as print, television, radio and public lectures.
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"Ukiyo-e Beauties" |
JAPANESE ART CALENDAR UKIYO-E
To complement "Ukiyo-e Beauties" Appliya is also releasing "JAPANESE ART CALENDAR UKIYO-E", a calendar creation app for art aficionados that offers 12 pictures from the remarkable "Ukiyo-e Beauties" collection. Create calendar images to use as your iPhone/iPod Touch wallpaper by specifying the month and layout. Once you've chosen your desired background image, you can choose to display up to several months on top of it, or choose a different picture for each month of the year.
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 "JAPANESE ART CALENDAR" screen shot |
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Promotional codes
We are providing "promotional codes" to those who are interested in our products. With a promotion code, you will have the ability to download an application for free. However, the code can only be used with a US iTunes store account.
To request the promotion codes, please send us an e-mail to the address below. We will reply with the codes for the 2 applications.
Please note that the number of codes are limited and we are accepting requests in the order received. Please also note that the codes are only available for the press.
Promotional codes request address: appliya-pr-en@appliya-inc.com
