| Title |
Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [020] |
| Photo Number |
Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Meiji Prints, 30 |
| Description |
Photo shows a woodblock print by a Japanese artist Katsuchika Hokusai, depicting several people working outdoors, using mallets and a stand / "kinuta" (possibly to iron cloth or to prepare cotton for spinning?) |
| Creator |
Tierney, Lennox |
| Date |
1969 |
| Subject |
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Cotton--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe |
| Keywords |
Kinuta |
| Collection Name and Number |
P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection |
| Holding Institution |
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Caption on Slide |
Print depicting several people working, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), late 18th century, color on paper. |
| Additional Information |
Image was scanned from 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. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Trades & craft screen women prepare cotton for spinning using a kinuta, late 18th C. color on paper, 1 sec f 10 nat. light pm 9/20/69 p. 212 "Japan A Hist of Art" micro lens pix: A. Hokusai-died 1848 (Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.)" |
| Type |
Image |
| Rights Management |
This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
| Rights |
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| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6tx3x68 |
| Digitization Specifications |
Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000. |
| Donor |
Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney |
| Setname |
uum_lctpc |
| ID |
330845 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tx3x68 |
