Art: Otsu-e [006]

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Title Art: Otsu-e [006]
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Otsu-e, 12
Description Photo shows an Otsu-e print from the Lennox and Catherine Tierney Collection
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1991
Subject Folk art--Photographs; Painting, Japanese--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Head shaving--Art--Photographs; Ladders--Art--Photographs; Japan; Art
Keywords Otsu-e
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 Otsu-e print, Collection of L & C Tierney, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Otsu-e" refers to popular Japanese folk paintings from the Edo period, and are so named because they were often sold in and around the town of Otsu, between Edo and Kyoto. Done by anonymous artists, and often in a humorous manner, they often showed figures from folklore and religion, but later portrayed secular subjects. Note: "Let it be said that Otsu-e up to the late nineteenth century were folk paintings and did not employ the woodblock medium."--The Floating World by James A. Michener with commentary by Howard A. Link, (The Floating World: Thirty Years Later), page 379.
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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ARK ark:/87278/s6qf98kv
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 329801
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qf98kv
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