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Bamboo Blind, from the series Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places


Kitagawa Utamaro, Bamboo Blind, from the series Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places, ca. 1795-1796, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.302

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Title

Bamboo Blind, from the series Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places

Related Titles

catalog entry: Sudare (Bamboo Blind), from the series Meisho koshikake hakkei (Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places)

series (translated): Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places

series (transliterated): Meisho koshikake hakkei

series title (original language): 色所腰掛八景

translated: Bamboo Blind

transliterated: Sudare

Artist

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?-1806)

Related People

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

Date

ca. 1795-1796

Period

Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)

Medium

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e

Dimensions (H x W x D)

image: 15 1/16 in x 10 in; sheet: 15 1/16 in x 10 in

Inscriptions & Markings

inscription: Transliteration (Translation): Morobito ni shigaramu tsuta no nijū utsushi (Everyone is tangled up in twenty strands of ivy, reflected in a double image)

signature: 哥麿筆, printed in black ink, bottom left, within block Transliteration (Translation): Utamaru hitsu (by Utamaro) Language: Japanese

publisher's mark: 林, 伊勢利, 池之端中町, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche, lower left, within block Transliteration: Hayashi, Iseri, Ikenohata Nakamachi Description: mark of the publisher Iseya Rihei

series title: 色所腰掛八景, prihnted in black ink within rectangular vertical cartouche on white ground, upper left, within block Language: Japanese

Collection Area

Asian Art; Graphic Arts

Category

Prints

Japanese Traditional Prints

Object Type

relief print

Culture

Japanese

Credit Line

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

Accession Number

32.302

Copyright

public domain

Terms

Edo

Japanese woodblock prints

nishiki-e

oban

relief printing

relief prints

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

woodcuts

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