Title |
Japanese Arts and Crafts: Packaging [007] |
Collection Name and Number |
P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection |
Photo Number |
Box 25, Japan, Packaging, 12 |
Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Date |
1975 |
Subject |
Packaging--Japan--Photographs; Decoration and ornament--Japan--Photographs; Food--Japan--Photographs; Japan; Art; Packaging |
Keywords |
Arts and crafts; Arts & Crafts; Bijinga |
Spatial Coverage |
Honshū (Japan) |
Description |
Close-up photo of a Japanese cracker box wrapper with a Utamaro (well-know artist) bijinga ("beautiful person picture") inspiration for the woman's figure in Japan in 1975 |
Caption on Slide |
The art of Kitagawa Utamaro was the inspiration for figure on this Japanese cracker box wrapper, Japan. |
Additional Information |
Image was scanned from color slide. Kitagawa Utamaro was a well-known Japanese artist in the late 18th to early 19th century known for his woodblock prints, especially of Japanese women (known as "bijinga"), and also nature studies. |
Type |
Image |
Creator |
Tierney, Lennox |
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. |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s68d0cd2 |
Digitization Specifications |
Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000. |
Donor |
Tierney, Lennox; Catherine Tierney |
Setname |
uum_lctpc |
ID |
333303 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68d0cd2 |