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Kokon kon aku ko taiji (Banishing the Evil Fox through All the Ages)


Utagawa Yoshitora, Kokon kon aku ko taiji (Banishing the Evil Fox through All the Ages), 1863, 7th month, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e; triptych, The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection, public domain, 84.25.105a-c

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Title

Kokon kon aku ko taiji (Banishing the Evil Fox through All the Ages)

Related Titles

original language: 古今こん悪狐退治

translated: Banishing the Evil Fox through All the Ages

transliterated: Kokon kon aku ko taiji

Artist

Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active ca. 1830s–1882)

Related People

publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese, active Edo late 1840s-ca. 1875)

publisher: Iseya Rihei (Japanese, active 1790s-ca. 1879)

Date

1863, 7th month

Period

Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)

Medium

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e; triptych

Catalogue Raisonné

Graybill 2011, no. 105

Dimensions (H x W x D)

overall: 14 in x 29 3/8 in

Inscriptions & Markings

publisher's mark: 吉伊勢兼, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on white reserve ground, lower middle of right sheet; lower right of center sheet; lower left of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): Kichi Isekane ([seal of the publisher Iseya Kanekichi 伊勢屋兼吉]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo-Tokyo publisher, active late 1840s-ca. 1875.

title: 古今こん悪狐退治, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on green ground, upper right of right sheet Transliteration (Translation): Kokon kon aku ko taiji (banishing the evil fox through all the ages) Language: Japanese

carver's mark: 彫長, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on yellow ground, bottom middle of right sheet Transliteration (Translation): Hori Chō ([seal of the carver Katada Chōjirō 片田長治郎]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo-Tokyo carver, d. 1919.

censor's mark; date: 亥七改, printed in black relief within circular cartouche on white reserve ground, center right of right and center sheet; center left of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): i nana aratame (inspected year of the boar [1863] 7th month) Language: Japanese

carver's mark: 片田彫長, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on yellow ground, lower right of center sheet; lower left of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): Katada Horichō ([seal of the carver Katada Chōjirō 片田長治郎]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo-Tokyo carver, d. 1919.

signature: 芳虎画, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on red ground, center right of right and center sheet; center left of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): Yoshitora ga (picture [by] Yoshitora) Language: Japanese

Collection Area

Asian Art; Graphic Arts

Category

Prints

Japanese Traditional Prints

Object Type

relief print

Culture

Japanese

Credit Line

The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection

Accession Number

84.25.105a-c

Copyright

public domain

Terms

Edo

Japanese woodblock prints

nishiki-e

oban

relief printing

relief prints

triptychs

woodcuts

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