Block printing, Meiji period: Hasegawa Sadanobu [2]

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Title Block printing, Meiji period: Hasegawa Sadanobu [2]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Meiji Prints, 31
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1985
Subject Hasegawa, Sadanobu, 1848-1940; Block printing--Japan; Ukiyoe
Keywords Meiji; Namban
Spatial Coverage Kōbe-shi (Japan)
Description Photo shows a woodblock print by Japanese artist Hasegawa Shōshin (a.k.a., Hasegawa Sadanobu), part of a scene showing the busy port city of Kobe (left half). This is an example of "Namban" art.
Caption on Slide "Prosperous Kobe Waterfront Street" Woodblock by Shoshin, Kobe City Museum Collection Namban Painting, Photo from The Hybrid Culture, Meiji Period, RIGHT HALF, later 19th C.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Original housed at the Kobe City Museum. Hasegawa Sadanobu (長谷川貞信, 1848-1940), also known as Hasegawa Shōshin, was a Japanese woodblock artist of the Meiji period; Namban art (南蛮美術?) refers to Japanese art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries influenced by contact with the Namban (南蛮?) or 'Southern barbarians', traders and missionaries from Portugal and Spain.--Wikipedia/
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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.
ARK ark:/87278/s6q535g7
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 330846
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q535g7
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