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JAPANESE PRINTS A MILLION QUESTIONS TWO MILLION MYSTERIES |
Ukiyo-e Prints浮世絵版画 |
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UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI 歌川国芳 1797-1861 |
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Title: Spring View of the Sumida River Sumidagawa no shunkei 隅田川の春景 |
| Subject: Three beautiful women disembarking onto a dock |
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Publisher: Sawa-ya Kōkichi (Marks #460 - seal #21-089 |
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Date: Ca. 1850-51 Censors' seals: Mera and Murata |
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Signed: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga Artist seal (in red): Paulownia |
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There is another copy of this triptych on loan from the collection of Professor R. Miller to the British Museum. The National Diet Library owns a fresh copy of the whole triptych. Ritsumeikan University also owns a copy. The Kitakyushū Municipal Museum of Art owns a fresh copy of this triptych. It is illustrated in color in Ukiyoe Museums in Japan, vol. 6, pp. 88-89. There is also another copy of this triptych in the Ishibi Prefectural Museum. |
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Below are the individual prints displayed separately for better viewing. |
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