Timber from Osumi

Details

• Title

  Timber from Osumi

• Series

  Celebrated Treasures of Mountains and Seas

• Artist/maker

  Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)

• Associated people

  Kinugasa Fusajirō (active c. 1843 - 1853) (censor)

  Murata Heiemon (active 1843 - 1853) (censor)

  Kihachi Mitaya ("Mitaya KIhachi") (active c. 1830s - 1874) (publisher)

• Associated place

  Asia › Japan (place of creation)

• Date

  1852

• Material and technique

  nishiki-e (full colour) woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)

• Material index

  processed material › paper

• Technique index

  printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut

• Object type

  visual representation › print

• Dimensions

  mount 55.4 x 40.2 cm (height x width)
  print 35.9 x 23.5 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by George Grigs, Miss Elizabeth Grigs, and Miss Susan Messer, in memory of Derick Grigs, 1971.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1971.154

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