Block printing: Hishikawa Moronobu [002]

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Title Block printing: Hishikawa Moronobu [002]
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 2
Description Photograph of block print: possibly known as "The Twelfth Scene", (from series Scenes of the Pleasure Quarter at Yoshiwara in Edo), by Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, ca. 1618 - ca. 1694), sumizuri-e, ôban, (approximate size, may vary) 25.4 cm x 38.1 cm (10 in. x 15 in.), circa 1670-1680
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1967
Subject Hishikawa, Moronobu, approximately 1618-approximately 1694--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Steets--Art--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Red-light districts--Art--Photographs; Prostitution--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe
Keywords Sumizuri-e; 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 Print, possibly known as "The Twelfth Scene", (from series Scenes of the Pleasure Quarter at Yoshiwara in Edo), by Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, ca. 1618 - ca. 1694), sumizuri-e, oban, circa 1670-1680.
Additional Information Image was scanned from slide. Note: Information in description provided from Metropolitan Museum of Art website. Note: Moronobu's D.O.B. differs. http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/60000803 Note: "Hishikawa Moronobu, (born 1618, Yasuda, Japan-died 1694, Edo [now Tokyo]), Japanese printmaker, the first great master of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), a genre depicting entertainment districts and other scenes of urban life."--Encyclopædia Britannica. Note: "Yoshiwara was a famous yūkaku (pleasure district, red-light district) in Edo, present-day Tōkyō, Japan."--Wikipedia. Note: "Black-and-white compositions like this one are known as sumizuri-e because they were rubbed (suri) in ink (sumi) only."--The Floating World of Ukiyo-e, Library of Congress website. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/ 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: Original caption information for this image provided as: "Scene at Yoshiwara Hishikawa Moronabu (on back) Ex Bob Thompson"
Type Image
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ARK ark:/87278/s6w95t5r
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 340094
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6w95t5r
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