Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [067]

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Title Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [067]
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 114
Description Photograph of block print: "Convolvulus and Tree Frog", also known as "Morning Glories and Tree Frog", (from an untitled series known as Large Flowers), by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849), ukiyo-e, ôban, (approximate size, may vary slightly) 26.7 x 39 cm (10 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.), circa 1833-34
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 2003
Subject Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Flowers--Art--Photographs; Convolvulaceae--Art--Photographs; Morning glories--Art--Photographs; Frogs--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe
Keywords Asagao; 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 "Convolvulus and Tree Frog", also known as "Morning Glories and Tree Frog", by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849). Copy photograph by Lennox Tierney.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Original work was intended to be viewed as horizontal. 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: "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.
Type Image
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ARK ark:/87278/s6th94nq
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 340288
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6th94nq
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