Block printing: Hishikawa Moronobu [010]

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Title Block printing: Hishikawa Moronobu [010]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Moronobu, 1
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1978
Subject Hishikawa, Moronobu, approximately 1618-approximately 1694--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Kitchens--Art--Photographs; Cookery--Art--Photographs; Cooking (Fish)--Art--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Dogs--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe; Cooking; Fishes
Description Photo of a block print by Japanese artist Hishikawa Moronobu (c1618-1694), depicting a kitchen, ca. A.D. 1678
Caption on Slide Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, ca. 1618 - ca. 1694).
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Hishikawa Moronobu, (born 1618, Yasuda, Japan-died 1694, Edo [now Tokyo]), Japanese printmaker, the first great master of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), a genre depicting entertainment districts and other scenes of urban life."--Encyclopædia Britannica. Note: Original caption information included following information: "Kitchen, Hishikawa Moronobu, 1678, oban, sumizuri-e, with light colors, 27.5 x 41."
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6ft92v8
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 330817
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ft92v8
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