Japanese Arts and Crafts: Packaging [007]

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Title Japanese Arts and Crafts: Packaging [007]
Photo Number Box 25, Japan, Packaging, 12
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
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1975
Subject Packaging--Japan--Photographs; Decoration and ornament--Japan--Photographs; Food--Japan--Photographs; Japan; Art; Packaging
Keywords Arts and crafts; Arts & Crafts; Bijinga
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
Spatial Coverage Honshū (Japan)
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
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
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
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