1933.4.1726: Flute Player Charming a Snake ("Snake" from the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1726
- People
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Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Japanese (1786? - 1868)
- Title
- Flute Player Charming a Snake ("Snake" from the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- surimono, print
- Date
- Edo period, dated 1833
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/207857
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "shikishi-ban" format; ink, color, metallic pigment and mica on paper
- Dimensions
- Paper: H. 21.9 cm x W. 18.1 cm (8 5/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
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
- 1933.4.1726
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 031 / p. 64
Verification Level
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