Block Printing, Meiji period: Utagawa Yoshiiku [3]

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Title Block Printing, Meiji period: Utagawa Yoshiiku [3]
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Meiji Prints, 10
Description Photo shows a Meiji-period woodblock print by Japanese artist Utagawa Yoshiiku, depicting foreigners carousing at Gankiro brothel, an institution set up to cater to Western men visiting Yokohama; part of a triptych dating from ca. 1861
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1969
Subject Ochiai, Yoshiiku, 1833-1904; Block printing--Japan; Geishas--Art
Keywords Gankiro
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 Yokohama-shi (Japan)
Caption on Slide Party of persons from 5 countires at Gankiro Restaurant, Wood Block Print 1861
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川 芳幾, 1833 - February 6, 1904), also known as or Ochiai Yoshiiku (落合 芳幾), was a Japanese artist of the Utagawa school. Yoshiiku is known as a ukiyo-e print designer and as a newspaper illustrator.
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.
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ARK ark:/87278/s61j9sns
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 330828
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61j9sns
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