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Syllable - Mi from the series Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Prints, c.1770-1773 (woodblock...

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MAI6437461
Image title
Syllable - Mi from the series Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Prints, c.1770-1773 (woodblock on paper)
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Artist
Shunsho, Katsukawa (1726-92) / Japanese
Location
Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Kent, UK
Medium
woodblock print on paper
Date
c. 1770 AD - c. 1773 AD (C18th AD)
Dimensions
21.7x15.7 cms
Image description

From a series of 22 prints illustrating the 11th century novel 'Tales of Ise'. Dominant colour is green to yellow-green, with pale sepia brown and yellow ochre to pale orange. Palace interior. In foreground a lady seated at a low table with writing box and paper with script and a pile of books. To lady's left is shoji recess with lacquer box on sill. Lady is holding a writing brush and is listening to a standing nobleman, gesturing with a fan in his right hand - has clearly entered from veranda. Flowering prunus branch seen in rear. At top corner of each print is a single character (of Kana type) each different and enclosed in circle (0.8cm diameter).

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© Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
tree / architecture / branch / writing / woman / man / building / Japan / Asia / literature / furniture / nobility / palace / table / novel / Edo period (1603-1868) / print / story / interior / blossom

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