1933.4.1620: Pictures of Otohime Riding Dragon and Pines at Sunset, from the series Ten Designs for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren jūban tsuzuki)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.4.1620

People

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Japanese (1786? - 1868)

Title

Pictures of Otohime Riding Dragon and Pines at Sunset, from the series Ten Designs for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren jūban tsuzuki)

Other Titles

Transliterated Title: Honchōren jūban tsuzuki: Otohime

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print, surimono

Date

Edo period, early 1820s

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/207842

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. 21.1 cm x W. 18.8 cm (8 5/16 x 7 3/8 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

1933.4.1620

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 67
• Katherine Lockett, "Technical Study of the Colours Found in Six Ukiyo-E Surimono Woodblock Prints Produced by the Artist Yashima Gakutei between 1820 and 1830" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1999), Unpublished, pp. 1-51 passim

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