![Ichikawa Ebijūrō I (市川鰕十郎) as Ukisu no Iwamatsu (うきすの岩松) on the right, Arashi Kitsusaburō II (嵐吉三郎) as the farmer Jūsaku (百姓十作) in the center, Sawamura Kunitarō II (沢村國太郎) as Jūsaku's wife [<i>nyōbō</i>] Okinu (十作女房お絹) on the left in <i>Keisei kakehashi monogatari</i> (けいせい棧物語)](https://mail.woodblockprints.org/media/lyon_collection/images/1/8/72614_ca_object_representations_media_1871_large.jpg)
![Tawara Tōta Hidesato [田原藤太秀郷] and Otohime from the series <i>Twenty-Four Generals for the Katsushika Circle</i> (<i>Katsushika nijūshishō</i> - 葛飾廿四将)](https://mail.woodblockprints.org/media/lyon_collection/images/9/50847_ca_object_representations_media_917_large.jpg)
Welcome to The Lyon Collection!
Ukiyo-e Prints in the Mike Lyon Collection
Mike Lyon (artist b. 1951) was fortunate to have grown up familiar with Japanese prints. In his youth Lyon’s parents and grandparents displayed examples that certainly inspired his own artistic development. He began acquiring Japanese color woodcuts early in his career as an artist. The types of prints that feature most prominently among the many hundreds in Lyon's collection reflect the artist’s deep appreciation of the human figure and the expressive facial portrait. The vast majority of Japanese prints in the Lyon collection represent views of actors yakusha-e) and beautiful women (bijin-ga), and in particular the close-up, bust-length portraits of the same (okubi-e).