Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 36293

Kogiku in Saruwaka-Cho

Artist / 作者: Toyohara Kunichika豊原国周
Date / 年代: 1878
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / loc
Digital record / 画像記録: 705 × 1024 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Library of Congress
Published by / 公開者: 森川ミドリ
Rights / 権利: No known restrictions on publication
Attribution / 表記: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Catalog note / 解説

Ukiyo-e print showing a beautiful woman, Kogiku, looking at photographic portraits (cartes de visite), possibly of her admirers. Photography was so new in Japan when this print was created that the artist is also representing his country's growing contact with the western world and modern technology. The sake and grilled fish in the rectangle above the woman's head show one restaurant's culinary specialties. The long, vertical cartouche on the right calls the woman Kogiku, which translates as \"small chrysanthemum,\" and gives the address in Saruwaka-Cho (now Asakusa), an entertainment district in Japan's capital city. The stamp on the carte de visite represents the noted Tokyo portrait pho…

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