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Object Type
print
Museum number
1906,1220,0.175
Description
Woodblock print. Sumo. The wrestlers Tanikaze and Taki-no-oto, the latter carrying bow.
Producer name
Print artist:
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英
Cultures/periods
Kansei Era
Production date
1790s (early)
Production place
Made in:
Japan
Materials
paper
Technique
woodblock
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Binyon 1916 / A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(34)
Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan Vol 2 / Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan
(118)
Royal Academy 1981 / The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868
(115)
Tokyo Edo 1990 / Daiei Hakubutsukan hizō "Edo bijutsuten" : Edo Tōkyō 400-nen kinen (Special Collection of the British Museum: Exhibition of Edo Arts)
(351)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
wrestling/wrestler
arms/armour
Associated names
Associated with:
Tanikaze
Associated with:
Taki-no-oto
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Arthur Morrison
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Asia
Registration number
1906,1220,0.175
Conservation
Treatment
: 05 Mar 1997