Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [020]

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Title Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [020]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Meiji Prints, 30
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1969
Subject Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Cotton--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe
Keywords Kinuta
Description Photo shows a woodblock print by a Japanese artist Katsuchika Hokusai, depicting several people working outdoors, using mallets and a stand / "kinuta" (possibly to iron cloth or to prepare cotton for spinning?)
Caption on Slide Print depicting several people working, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), late 18th century, color on paper.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October or November 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s."--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Trades & craft screen women prepare cotton for spinning using a kinuta, late 18th C. color on paper, 1 sec f 10 nat. light pm 9/20/69 p. 212 "Japan A Hist of Art" micro lens pix: A. Hokusai-died 1848 (Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.)"
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6tx3x68
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 330845
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tx3x68