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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1924,0327,0.19
Title
Series:
Shiika shashin kyo 詩哥写真鏡
(True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems)
Description
Colour woodblock print. Chinese cavalry officer on horseback and his servant on foot on a snowy river bank, associated with a poem by Du Fu wishing farewell to a friend who was heading to war.
Producer name
Print artist:
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
Published by:
Moriya Jihei 森屋治兵衛
School/style
Ukiyo-e School
Cultures/periods
Tenpo Era
Production date
1833-1834
(c.)
Production place
Made in:
Japan
Materials
paper
Technique
woodblock
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Keyes & Morse 2015 / Catalogue raisonné of Hokusai's single sheet prints
(980)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
literature
landscape
traveller/travel
equestrian
servant/domestic worker
snow
Associated names
Associated with:
Du Fu 杜甫
Associated places
Associated with:
China
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Robert N Shaw
Acquisition date
1924
Department
Asia
Registration number
1924,0327,0.19