| Title |
Block Printing, Meiji period: Edo earthquake 1855 |
| Photo Number |
Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Meiji Prints, 39 |
| Description |
Photo shows a blockline print by a Japanese artist (unidentified), depicting the great earthquake of Nov. 11, 1855, which heavily damaged the city of Edo (Tokyo) |
| Creator |
Tierney, Lennox |
| Date |
1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000 |
| Subject |
Block printing--Japan; Earthquakes--Art; Ukiyoe |
| Keywords |
Meiji |
| 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 |
Tokyo (Japan) |
| Caption on Slide |
Great Edo Earthquake 1855 following an earlier one a few months before. Reported in Kawara Ban (Tile sheets) newspapers- actually printed by woodblocks, paper attrib. disaster to a seamonster, Japan, Day. Seplt. S. Forest, 1 sec at f 10, P. 234-35 Japan- A Hist. in Art |
| Additional Information |
Image was scanned from color slide. Taken from the book Japan: a history in art, by Bradley Smith (1964), pp. 234-235. Original resides at the University of Tokyo. |
| 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 |
 |
| Temporal Coverage |
1964-2004 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6jd5cp1 |
| 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 |
330855 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jd5cp1 |
