illustrated book;
print;
album
- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.114
- Title
- Object: Soken jo 素絢帖
- Description
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Illustrated book, folding album. One volume. Thirty-six illustrations of flowers and plants accompanying Chinese-style verses. Woodblock-printed in reserve, in imitation of stone-rubbing (ishizuri).
- Production date
- 1768
- Dimensions
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Height: 31 centimetres (covers)
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Width: 19 centimetres (covers)
- Curator's comments
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Jakuchu was an eighteenth-century Kyoto painter who had strong associations with Shokoku-ji temple and its cultivated monk Daiten. The album was produced by a woodblock technique that imitates stone-rubbings (ishizuri). (Label copy, TTC 1997)
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Hillier and Smith 1980
'Ishizuri', so-called 'stone prints' (the Japanese term for this sort of book is 'takuhon', folio of rubbings). The designs are by one of the greatest of Japanese individualistic artists. The prints are related to those produced by the Chinese stone-rubbing process. The title, which may yet prove incorrect, seems to refer to the process but has never been satisfactorily translated. See also 1979,0305,0.131 and 1979,0305,0.481 for other examples of this technique.
Literature:
Mitchell, C H, with the assistance of Ueda, Osamu, 'The Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama, Shijo and Other Related Schools of Japan. A Biobibliography', Los Angeles, 1972, p. 499.
Sorimachi, Shigeo, 'Catalogue of Japanese Illustrated Books in the Spenser Collection of the New York Public Library', New York, 1968, no. 426.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.114
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.114 (Hillier no.)