illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.184.1
- Title
- Object: Yamato jinbutsu gafu 倭人物画譜 (Picture-album of the Natives of Yamato)
- Description
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Illustrated book. Vol. 1 of three volumes. Genre scenes in Kyoto and Osaka. Black and white woodblock-printed.
- Production date
- 1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 26 centimetres
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Width: 18.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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The illustrations show Kyoto genre scenes by the artist Yamaguchi Soken (1759-1818), a pupil of the great Maruyama Okyo. The title calligraphy by Kien appears to read 'Sporting with the Brush'. (Label copy, TTC 1997)
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Hillier and Smith 1980
One of the most admired of black and white books. A second similar series was published in 1804. Yamato here refers to the area of Kyoto and Osaka as contrasted with Edo. The genre style of the former is racier and nearer to reality than the fantasies of the newer city.
Literature:
Hillier, J, 'The Uninhibited Brush. Japanese Art in the Shijo Style', London, 1974, pp. 109, 114, 116 and 154.
Holloway, Owen E, 'Graphic Art of Japan: The Classical School', London, 1957, no. 45.
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, pp. 552-3.
Toda, Kenji, 'Descriptive Catalogue of the Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago', Chicago, 1931, pp. 371-2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.184.1
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.184 (Hillier no.)
