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Kitao Masayoshi

Sketches by Keisai: Vol. 4, ca. 1840

Description

Maker

  • Kitao Masayoshi, 1764-1824, Japanese
  • Tōshirō Katano, 1845 - 1894, Japanese, publisher
  • Raian Genki, fl. ca. 1840, Japanese

Title

Sketches by Keisai: Vol. 4

Year

ca. 1840

Medium

Polychrome woodblock printed books

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.7 x 1 cm (9 x 6 3/16 x 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription on inside of front cover, top right in pencil: Masayoshi 4/13.1288Red circular seal stamped on first page, top right; red square seal stamped on last page with image.Octagonal label adhered to inside of front cover, top right corner with inscription in ink:Masayoshi/odd vol. (4); second octagonal label on back cover, top right corner, with inscription in ink: dy/35/Drawing/Masayoshi/13.1288; rectangular label directly below second label with inscription in ink: A/E783

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Books

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1288

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Painterly Prints in Nineteenth-Century Japan

June 1 - September 23, 2007

The vibrant textures of ink-wash landscape are conveyed effectively in these two pages of woodcut designs. The forms in these book illustrations have been created without the use of a black-ink block for the outlines, as is the case with many of the prints in this exhibition.

Japanese Prints

March 10 - June 9, 1998

Related

Kitao Masayoshi

Sketches by Keisai: Vol. 2, 1842

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