Catalog record · 目録番号 79260

Senbongui and Ryogokubashi Bridge (1000 Poles)

千ほんくい両国橋

Artist / 作者: Kobayashi Kiyochika小林清親
Date / 年代: 1847
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / jaodb
Digital image / 画像: 1200 × 816 px
Published by / 公開者: 星野アカリ

Catalog note / 解説

Kiyochika, Kobayashi- Senbongui and Ryogokubashi Bridge- 1.jpg is: Woodblock by Kiyochika ‘1000 Poles at Ryogoku Bridge’ (1880) Evocative Meiji-era riverscene woodblock print by Kiyochika Kobayashi (1847-1915) titled “Senbon Kui Ryogoku-bashi” (translates as “One Thousand Poles at Ryogoku Bridge”) and margin-dated as “Meiji 13” (or 1880). This print is illustrated twice in the wonderfully descriptive book “Kiyochika, Artist of Meiji Japan” (Henry Smith, 1988) as Plates #21 and #80 (pages 34 and 71). Printed from superbly and accurately re-cut blocks shortly after WWII. Circa 1950’s. Superb print?nicely illuminated morning scene for which Kiyochika is well known. The workmanship in printing…

Image record / 画像情報

JAODB · Not set · jaodb

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