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Kawamura Kihō

Kihō’s Sketchbook (Kihō gafu), Edo (Japanese period)

Maker

  • Kawamura Kihō
  • Bunchodo

Title

Kihō’s Sketchbook (Kihō gafu)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

mica (mineral), ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Woodcut illustrated book with mica-stencilled paper wrappers

Techniques

  • Woodcut illustrated book with mica-stencilled paper wrappers

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

25.7 x 17.5 x 1.1 cm (10 1/8 x 6 7/8 x 7/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription on inside of left side cover (when open), top left corner in pencil:$RMDr 6904New blue-cloth binder bears Isseido label on inside of top (right side when open) cover , top right corner.

Signature: Shuyokan Kiho

Seals: Artist's seal | Nanzan-o

Identification

Edition

First

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

  • Books

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2003.39.6

Kihō’s Sketchbook (Kihō gafu)
Bird on a Flowering Plum Tree

First

Inscription on inside of left side cover (when open), top left corner in pencil:$RMDr 6904New blue-cloth binder bears Isseido label on inside of top (right side when open) cover , top right corner.

Signature: Shuyokan Kiho

Seals: Artist's seal | Nanzan-o

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

Painterly Prints in Nineteenth-Century Japan

June 1 - September 23, 2007

An Abundance of Color

March 5 - May 30, 2004
The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Kihō’s Sketchbook (Kihō gafu) with the accession number of 2003.39.6. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.
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