Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [021]

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Title Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [021]
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 68
Description Photograph of block print: "The Rush Gatherer" (Tokusa gari), also known as "A Peasant Crossing a Bridge: Gathering Rushes" (Tokusa kari), (from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Verse), by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849), nishiki-e, nagaban, vertical, (approximate size, may vary) 519 mm x 235 cm (20.43 in. x 9.25 in.), Edo period, Late, 1789-1868
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1978
Subject Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Peasants--Art--Photographs; Bridges--Art--Photographs; Ducks--Art--Photographs; Rural conditions--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe; Peasants; Ducks
Keywords Nishiki-e
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 "The Rush Gatherer" (Tokusa gari), also known as "A Peasant Crossing a Bridge: Gathering Rushes" (Tokusa kari), (from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Verse), by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849), nishiki-e, nagaban, vertical, 51.9 cm x 23.5 cm, Edo period, Late, 1789-1868.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October or November 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s."--Wikipedia. Note: "Nishiki-e (lit. "brocade picture") refers to Japanese multi-colored woodblock printing; this technique is used primarily in ukiyo-e. It was invented in the 1760s...Previously, most prints had been in black-and-white, colored by hand, or colored with the addition of one or two color ink blocks. A nishiki-e print is created by carving a separate woodblock for every color, and using them in a stepwise fashion...in order to create a single complete image."--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Katsushika Hokusai gathering horsetails ~1830 from Ills. Of Chinese and Japanese Poems 50 X 22 cm Nagaban vert. nishiki-e"
Type Image
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ARK ark:/87278/s65435hc
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 340030
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65435hc
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