print
- Museum number
- 1906,1220,0.15
- Title
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Object: Karasaki no yoru no ame (Night rain at Karasaki)
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Series: Omi hakkei (Eight Views of Omi, No 2)
- Description
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Woodblock print. Night rain at Karasaki, with travellers, shrine and famous old pine. With poem. With hand-colouring, lacquer (ink and glue), and metal dust. Urushi-e on paper. Inscribed, signed and marked.
- Production date
- 1724-1736 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 31.40 centimetres
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Width: 15.60 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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In the Kyoho era (1716-36) there appeared the earliest series of pure landscapes in Ukiyo-e, in the small, upright hosoban format. Travellers scurry through the rain in front of the famous old pine tree at the shrine of Karasaki. (Label copy, TTC, 1998)
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Smith 1988
This is the second of a set of eight traditional views of Lake Biwa (Omi) to the east of Kyoto. The views were in turn based on an older Chinese set called 'Eight Views of the Xiaoxiang Rivers'. This is probably the earliest 'Ukiyo-e' school set on this subject, and also one of the earliest Japanese landscape prints. The scene shows peasants near a small Shinto shrine. The poem refers to the famous pine-tree on the promontory there at Karasaki. The print is signed 'The brush of the artist Torii Kiyonobu'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1906,1220,0.15
