Block printing: Isoda Koryusai [001]

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Title Block printing: Isoda Koryusai [001]
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Minor Printers, 17
Description Photo shows a woodblock print by Japanese artist Isoda Koryusai, used as decoration on a book cover
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1978
Subject Isoda, Koryūsai, active 1764-1788--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Couples--Art--Photographs; Pipe smoking--Art--Photographs; Tobacco pipes--Art--Photographs; Flowering trees--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe; Flowers
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 Isoda Koryusai, active 1764-1788.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Similar image can be found on the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston website: http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/couple-smoking-under-a-plum-tree-235968 Note: "Isoda Koryūsai (1735-1790?) was a Japanese...artist active from approximately 1764 to 1788...The details of his life are under some dispute."--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Koryusai, Isoda (1764-88), Born Samurai in service of Lord of Tsuchiya- reliquished rank to become Ukiyo-e artist moved to Edo. Perhaps pupil of Nishimura Shigenaga but infl. by Haranobu- given name Haruhiro by Haranobu After 1780 only painted freedom of line under keno influence 1781 given Hokkyo Title"
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/s6zs3c7z
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 329830
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zs3c7z
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