Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [007]

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Title Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [007]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 64
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1978
Subject Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Fuji, Mount (Japan)--Art--Photographs; Mountains--Art--Photographs; Bridges--Art--Photographs; Art
Keywords Chuban; Fujigoko; Fujisan; Fuji-san; Fuji-yama; Fujiyama
Description Photograph of block print: "Mount Fuji under High Bridge" (Takahashi no Fuji), (from an untitled series of landscapes in Western style), by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849), horizontal chûban (approximate size, may vary) 18.2 cm x 24.4 cm (7 3/16 in. x 9 5/8 in.), circa 1800-05
Caption on Slide "Mount Fuji under High Bridge" (Takahashi no Fuji), (from an untitled series of landscapes in Western style), by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849).
Additional Information Image was scanned from (faded) color slide. Note: "Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October or November 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s."--Wikipedia. Note: "Chūban, a print size about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 centimeters)"--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Hokusai, Katsuchika 1760-1849 worked in Edo view of Mt. Fuji thru the piers of a high bridge"
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.
ARK ark:/87278/s62j6vt1
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 340170
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62j6vt1
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