Block printing: Utagawa School [005]

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Title Block printing: Utagawa School [005]
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Minor Printers, 102
Description Photo shows a woodblock print depicting a Kabuki theater in Tokyo, Japan, from the later Edo period, possibly created by artist known as "Toyoharu"
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1967
Subject Utagawa school of Ukiyoe--Photographs; Block printing--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Photographs; Performing arts--Art--Photographs; Performances--Art--Photographs; Theaters--Art--Photographs; Theater--Art--Photographs; Kabuki--Art--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Actors--Art--Photographs; Male actors--Art--Photographs; Clothing and dress--Art--Photographs; Costume--Art--Photographs; Parasols--Art--Photographs; Umbrellas--Art--Photographs; Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--Art--Photographs; Audiences--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe; Clothing and dress; Theater
Keywords Costumes; Hanamichi; Stages
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 Theater in Tokyo, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814) ... was a Japanese printmaker and founder of the Utagawa school ... His primary innovation ... was his adaptation of linear perspective to Japanese subject matter."--Wikipedia. Note: "Note: "The Utagawa school was a group of Japanese woodblock print artists, founded by Toyoharu. His pupil, Toyokuni I, took over after Toyoharu's death and raised the group to become the most famous and powerful woodblock print school for the remainder of the 19th century...The school became so successful and well known that today more than half of all surviving ukiyo-e prints are from it."--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Toyoharu? Later Edo Per Theater Tokyo, Japan"
Type Image
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ARK ark:/87278/s6280qb2
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 329899
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6280qb2
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