1933.4.1635: Shōkoku Kiyomori (Taira no Kiyomori), from the series Twenty-Four Generals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika nijūshishō)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.4.1635

People

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

Title

Shōkoku Kiyomori (Taira no Kiyomori), from the series Twenty-Four Generals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika nijūshishō)

Other Titles

Transliterated Title: Katsushika nijūshishō: Shōkoku Kiyomori (Taira no Kiyomori)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print, surimono

Date

Edo period, circa 1821

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/207844

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color, mica, metallic pigment and embossing on paper

Dimensions

Paper: H. 20.8 cm x W. 18.6 cm (8 3/16 x 7 5/16 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

1933.4.1635

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. 97
• John T Carpenter, ed., Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints with a Catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection, exh. cat. (Leiden, 2008), p. 116/Fig. 15

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