Block printing: Ishikawa Toyonobu [004]

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Title Block printing: Ishikawa Toyonobu [004]
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Toyonobu, 3
Description Photograph of block print: "Beauties and Palanquin", also known as "A Woman Seated in a Kago", oban, benizuri-e, by Ishikawa Toyonobu, publisher: Urokoataya, circa 1750-59
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000
Subject Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Clothing and dress--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe; Litters; Clothing and dress
Keywords Benizuri-e; Bijinga; Oban
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 "Beauties and Palanquin", also known as "A Woman Seated in a Kago", ukiyo-e print by Ishikawa Toyonobu, oban, benizuri-e, publisher: Urokoataya, circa 1750-59.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Similar image can be found on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/60025644 Note: "Ishikawa Toyonobu (1711 - July 1, 1785) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print artist. He is sometimes said to have been the same person as Nishimura Shigenobu...about whom very little is known."--Wikipedia. Note: "Ōban: a print size [approximately] 10 x 15 inches (25 x 38 cm)."--Masterworks of Ukiyo-e…by Muneshige Narazaki, English translation by John Bester, page 21. Note: "Benizuri-e (lit. "crimson printed pictures") are a type of "primitive" ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. They were usually printed in pink (beni) and green, occasionally with the addition of another color, either printed or added by hand. The production of benizuri-e reached its peak in the early 1740s."--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Ishikawa Toyonobu "Beauties & Palanquin" Oban, Benizuri-e, Pub. Urokogataya 1750's" Note: See (also) image with File Name: block_print_toyonobu_002.
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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Textual Date 1947-2004
ARK ark:/87278/s6sj229s
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 329754
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sj229s
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