Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [006]

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Title Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [006]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 61
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1978
Subject Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Edo Tōkyō Hakubutsukan--Japan--Photographs; Bridges--Art--Photographs; Bridges Japan Nihonbashi River--Art--Photographs; Nihonbashi River (Japan)--Art--Photographs; Mountains--Art--Photographs; Fuji, Mount (Japan)--Art--Photographs; Moon--Art--Photographs; Pedestrians--Art--Photographs; Art
Keywords Fujigoko; Fujisan; Fuji-san; Fuji-yama; Fujiyama
Description Photograph of block print: possibly known as "Eight Views of Edo in Style of Western Painting: Nihonbashi Bridge", by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849), (approximate size) 8.0 in x 10.9 in, possibly part of collection at Edo-Tokyo Museum
Caption on Slide Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).
Additional Information Image was scanned from (faded) color slide. Note: "Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October or November 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s."--Wikipedia.
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6cn7mtb
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 340036
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cn7mtb