illustrated book; print

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Object Type: illustrated book; print
Museum number: 1979,0305,0.35
Title: Object: Yamato furyu ekagami 大和風流絵鑑 (Japan Mirrored in Elegant Pictures)
Description: Illustrated book, print. One volume. Seasonal amusements of fashionably dressed townspeople. pp. 1-7, 10, 11/12, 13-18. Woodblock-printed with nineteenth-century hand-colouring. [JH.35, image 1] [JH.35, image 2] [JH.35, image 3] [JH.35, image 4] [JH.35, image 5] [JH.35, image 6] [JH.35, image 7] [JH.35, image 8] [JH.35, image 9] [JH.35, image 10] [JH.35, image 11] [JH.35, image 12] [JH.35, image 13] [JH.35, image 14] [JH.35, image 15] [JH.35, image 16] [JH.35, image 17] [JH.35, image 18]
Producer name: Print artist: Sugimura Jihei (杉村治兵衛); Published by: Yamagata Ichiroemon
Cultures/periods: Edo Period; Jokyo Era
Production date: 1684
Production place: Published in: Edo (?)
Materials
Technique: woodblock; hand-coloured (19thC)
Dimensions: Height: 25 centimetres; Width: 18.80 centimetres
Curator's comments: Each page of this rare, though incomplete book shows the seasonal amusements of fashionably dressed townspeople; here admiring the brilliant foliage of maples in autumn. The hand-colouring was added later. (Label copy, TTC, 1998); Hillier and Smith 1980 The finest of Sugimura's non-erotic 'ehon', its black and white brilliance unhappily lessened by crude hand-colouring. One other copy is known, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is in scroll form with a similar MS title. Like this copy it is incomplete, but the two together appear to make a complete book, less any preface there may have been. Literature: Hillier, J, 'Sugimura Jihei's "Yamato furyu ekagami"' in 'Ukiyoe Art', no. 45, Tokyo, 1975. Horioka, Chimyo, 'Sugimura Jihei's "Yamatofuryu ekagami"' in 'Ukiyoe Art', no. 40, 1973.
Bibliographic references: Hillier & Smith 1980 / Japanese Prints: 300 Years of Albums and Books (13); Smith 1988 / Ukiyoe: Images of Unknown Japan (Books:4); Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan Vol 3 / Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan (BW 175-189); Hillier 1987 / The Art of the Japanese Book (Fig. 75)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2007 Jun 13-Oct 7, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from Prehistory to the Present' 2014 Jan – Mar, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Japan, ‘Ukiyo-e: Journey through the Floating World’ 2014 Mar – May, Nagoya City Museum, Japan, ‘Ukiyo-e: Journey through the Floating World’ 2014 May – July, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan, ‘Ukiyo-e: Journey through the Floating World’
Subjects: society/human life; seasons
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1979
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1979,0305,0.35
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.35 (Hillier no.)
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