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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1621
People
Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Japanese (1786? - 1868)
Title
Pictures of Tao Yuanming (Tōenmei) and Chinese Landscape, from the series Ten Designs for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren jūban tsuzuki)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Honchōren jūban tsuzuki: Tōenmei (Tao Yuanming)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
Edo period, early 1820s
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207760

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; Ink, color, mica, metallic pigment and embossing on paper, with printed signature reading "Gakutei"
Dimensions
Paper: H. 19.7 cm x W. 18.1 cm (7 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Gakutei

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.1621
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 97

Verification Level

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