Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 45695
Fan print showing a young girl holding a cat as reflected in a mirror
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi歌川国芳
- Date / 年代
- 1840
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1200 × 974 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Prints London
- Published by / 公開者
- 朱雀ハル
- Rights / 権利
- No commercial-app permission documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Prints London
Catalog note / 解説
An uncut fan print of the utmost rarity with title E-kyodai awase kagami. An impossible title to translate but something like Disparate Images as Opposing Mirrors. Another from this set is illustrated in Juzo Suzuki, Kuniyoshi, 1992, pls. 421 and 422 ( from Merlin Dailey collection and also illustrated in Exhibition Of Ukiyo-e By Kuniyoshi, Riccar Art Museum, 1978, pls. 254 and 255, and elsewhere ). And another two designs are illustrated in the new Nikkei/Mori Arts Center Kuniyoshi catalogue, nos 321 and 322. These humorous prints show figures in contorted positions which, when seen in silhouette, reveal themselves as animals, crustaceans or fish. Two prints were published: as here, and th…
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