Block printing: Torii Kiyonaga [014]

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Title Block printing: Torii Kiyonaga [014]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Kiyonaga, 13
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1978
Subject Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Clothing and dress--Art--Photographs; Wisteria--Art--Photographs; Winds--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe; Clothing and dress; Wisteria
Keywords Hashira-e; Bijinga; Zukin; Breezes
Description Photograph (detail) of a block print: "Beauty in Breeze Beneath the Wisteria", also known as "Woman in Black Hood under Windblown Wisteria" by Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815), hashira-e (entire print) approximate size: 69.5 x 12.5 cm (27 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.), circa 1780; one of Kiyonaga's bijinga works, a personification of "The Wind"
Caption on Slide Detail, "Beauty in Breeze Beneath the Wisteria", also known as "Woman in Black Hood under Windblown Wisteria" by Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815), hashira-e (entire print), circa 1780.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Similar image (with information) can be found in Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Kiyonaga by Muneshige Narazaki, English translation by John Bester, pages 26-27. Note: Similar image can also be found on Museum of Fine Arts, Boston website: http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/woman-in-black-hood-under-windblown-wisteria-233196 Note: "Torii Kiyonaga, original name Sekiguchi Shinsuke (born 1752, Sagami Province, Japan - died June 28, 1815, Edo [Tokyo]), one of the most important Japanese artists of the Ukiyo-e movement (paintings and wood-block prints of the "floating world")...Kiyonaga concentrated on the depiction of famous beauties...Women in his prints were tall and stately, drawn with elegantly graceful lines in a realistic style."--Encyclopædia Britannica online. Note: "Hashira-e: a print size [approximately] 27 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (69.7 x 24.2 cm)."--Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Kiyonaga by Muneshige Narazaki, English translation by John Bester, page 21. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Torii Kiyonaga- 1780 The Wind (detail) Hashira-e 60.9 x 12.8 (entire print)"
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s60v8vmk
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 330774
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60v8vmk
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