| Title |
Art: Otsu-e [001] |
| Collection Name and Number |
P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection |
| Photo Number |
Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Otsu-e, 1 |
| 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 |
Folk art--Photographs; Painting, Japanese--Photographs; Cleveland Museum of Art--Ohio--Cleveland--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Girls--Art--Photographs; Wisteria--Art--Photographs; Performing arts--Art--Photographs; Theater--Art--Photographs; Kabuki--Art--Photographs; Unrequited love--Art--Photographs; Japan; Art; Wisteria; Theater |
| Keywords |
Otsu-e; Fuji Musume |
| Spatial Coverage |
Cleveland (Ohio) |
| Description |
Photo shows an Otsu-e print dating from the 17th century, now housed at the Cleveland Art Museum; "Fuji Musume" portrays a maiden bearing a branch of wisteria (fuji). This illustration was the inspiration for a Kabuki dance of the same name that portrays a girl lamenting over unrequited love |
| Caption on Slide |
"Wisteria Maiden" ("Fuji Musume") 17th century, Otsu-e, Cleveland Museum of Art. |
| Additional Information |
Image was scanned from (faded) 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. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Japan- Fuji Musume 17th C. Otsu-e Cleveland Art Museum" |
| 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 |
1947-2004 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64q89pq |
| 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 |
329790 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64q89pq |
