Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 58071
fidelity
- Artist / 作者
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi月岡芳年
- Date / 年代
- 1889
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / kruml
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 2328 × 1184 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
A triptych showing koi, “carp” swimming beneath hanging wisteria. One of Yoshitoshi’s finest and most popular designs. Published by Akiyama Buemon, 5/1889. See Beauty and Violence, Society for Japanese Arts, 1992, no. 66, p. 144 for another impression plus the original drawing by Yoshitoshi ( from the British Museum ). Also see this website in Brush Drawings and Hanshita-e for another two original drawings of koi by Yoshitoshi, possibly preliminary working ideas for the British Museum drawing. Yoshitoshi only produced one other carp print, a large surimono. Common carp were first bred for colour in Japan in the 1820s. Their name is a homophone for another word meaning “love” or “fidelity” a…
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