- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.75.1
- Title
- Object: Ranma zushiki 欄間図式 (Designs for Transoms)
- Description
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Illustrated book. Vol. 1 of three volumes. Landscape format in the shape of transom (ranma). White on black, woodblock-printed.
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- Production date
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1734
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1680-1763 (artist)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.10 centimetres
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Width: 25.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Hillier and Smith 1980
'Ranma', in the Japanese house, were the transoms above the 'fusuma' and often of carved, or carved and pierced, wood. These volumes are, unusually, in landscape format in response to the shape of 'ranma'. They are among the first Japanese books to exploit the 'white on black' technique.
Literature:
Brown, Louise Norton, 'Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan', London and New York, 1924, pp. 71-2.
Toda, Kenji, 'Descriptive Catalogue of the Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago', Chicago, 1931, p. 320.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.75.1
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.75 (Hillier no.)
