- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.438.1
- Title
- Object: Toto shokei ichiran 東都勝景一覧 (Fine Views of the Eastern Capital at a Glance)
- Description
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Illustrated book. Vol. 1 of two volumes. Sights of Edo with accompanying 'kyoka' verses. Colour woodblock-printed.
[JH.438, vol. 1, image 1] -
[JH.438, vol. 1, image 2] -
[JH.438, vol. 1, image 3] -
[JH.438, vol. 1, image 4] -
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[JH.438, vol. 1, image 11] -
[JH.438, vol. 1, image 12] -
[JH.438, vol. 1, image 13] -
- Production date
- 1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 26 centimetres
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Width: 17 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Hillier and Smith 1980
The first of three major works depicting the sights of Edo in colour prints, to which the accompanying 'kyoka' are quite subsidiary. The other two are H440 and H441.
Literature:
Brown, Louise Norton, 'Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan', London and New York, 1924, p. 181.
Hillier, J, 'The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration', London, 1980, no. 88.
Toda, Kenji, 'Descriptive Catalogue of the Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago', Chicago, 1931, p. 236.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007 Oct 10-2008 Feb 17, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.438.1
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.438 (Hillier no.)
