Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [072]

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Title Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [072]
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 117
Description Photograph of block print: "Weeping Cherry and Bullfinch", (from an untitled series known as Small Flowers (Uso, shidarezakura), circa 1832), by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849)
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 2003
Subject Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Birds--Art--Photographs; Finches--Art--Photographs; Flowering trees--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe
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 "Weeping Cherry and Bullfinch", by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849), circa 1832.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Similar image can be found on Honolulu Museum of Art website: http://honolulumuseum.org/art/9115 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: Original caption information provided as: "Bird of Flower Print by Hokus weeping cherry and bullfinch"
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/s6v41c5t
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 340342
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v41c5t
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