Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 130830

Dancer

Artist / 作者: Oishi Matora大石真虎
Date / 年代: 1827
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / met
Digital record / 画像記録: 2444 × 3859 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published by / 公開者: 小春ユイ
Rights / 権利: CC0 1.0 only when Open Access-designated
Attribution / 表記: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Catalog note / 解説

Original surimono were often commissioned by poetry circles and privately published. Surimono represent the peak in Japanese woodblock printing techniques. Their costly production resulted in very limited editions of a handful of impressions of each design only. Most copies of surimono were published at the end of the ninetenth or the beginning of the twentieth-century. The majority of then were based on surimono in the square format that had been published in the city of Edo (modern Tokyo) in the 1810 and 1820s. The ground-breaking publication of Roger Keyes, THE ART OF THE SURIMONO, provided an effective categorization of these surimono copies. This is probably s Group B copy, copied from…

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