Block Printing, Meiji period: Edo earthquake 1855

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Title Block Printing, Meiji period: Edo earthquake 1855
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Meiji Prints, 39
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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; Earthquakes--Art; Ukiyoe
Keywords Meiji
Spatial Coverage Tokyo (Japan)
Description Photo shows a blockline print by a Japanese artist (unidentified), depicting the great earthquake of Nov. 11, 1855, which heavily damaged the city of Edo (Tokyo)
Caption on Slide Great Edo Earthquake 1855 following an earlier one a few months before. Reported in Kawara Ban (Tile sheets) newspapers- actually printed by woodblocks, paper attrib. disaster to a seamonster, Japan, Day. Seplt. S. Forest, 1 sec at f 10, P. 234-35 Japan- A Hist. in Art
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Taken from the book Japan: a history in art, by Bradley Smith (1964), pp. 234-235. Original resides at the University of Tokyo.
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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.
Temporal Coverage 1964-2004
ARK ark:/87278/s6jd5cp1
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 330855
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jd5cp1
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