Catalog record · 目録番号 54000
Travelling Around the Waterfall Country
Catalog note / 解説
One of the most majestic landscape sets: Shokoku takimeguri, “Travelling Around the Waterfall Country.” A series of eight waterfalls, this being the Kirifuri, “Falling Mist” fall that cascades down Kurokami mountain in Shimotsuke Province. Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki. Pilgrims from Nikko admire the fall, one with Eijudo’s seal ( the publisher ) on his back; another with “Ei” on his back. Published c. 1832. Interestingly, there is a clever set of copies of this set, fully discussed in Oriental Art, Summer 1972, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, pp. 141 – 147 by Roger Keyes. Very good impression and colour. Slightly trimmed around: These designs are martyrs to trimming being slightly over-sized…
Image record / 画像情報
KRUML · 1832 · kruml
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