Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 56814

The Silver World

銀世界

Artist / 作者: Kitagawa Utamaro喜多川歌麿
Date / 年代: 1790
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital record / 画像記録: 750 × 921 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: British Museum
Published by / 公開者: 白石カナ
Rights / 権利: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; commercial license required
Attribution / 表記: Copyright The Trustees of the British Museum

Catalog note / 解説

Illustrated book, folding album, 1 vol. Snow from series of Snow, Moon and Flowers. Seventy-eight poems all on theme of snow. Contents: 10 leaves: 1 double-page preface, 5 double-page illustrations, 3 double pages of poems, 1 double page of poem and publisher's colophon. Illustrations: 1. Embankment of Sumida River in snow; 2. Chinese boys in snow; 3. Pulling a boat in snow; 4. Court scene in snow [Sei Shonagon]; 5. Party scene on snowy night. Colour woodblock-printed, with brass dust and gauffrage. Inscribed, signed and sealed. Covers: Dark blue, painted in gold with horizontal bands of mist and willow tree. Title slip: Original, printed on buff slip pasted in top left corner of cover.

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