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
- Related People
publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese, active Edo late 1840s-ca. 1875)
- 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
- Exhibitions
2005 Crowd Appeal: Impressions of Edo Japan Portland Art Museum
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum