Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 87352

Couple at Enoshima Gate

Artist / 作者: Totoya Hokkei魚屋北渓
Date / 年代: 1868-1912
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / robynbuntin
Digital record / 画像記録: 414 × 504 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Robyn Buntin of Honolulu
Published by / 公開者: 朝倉レン
Rights / 権利: No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記: Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

Catalog note / 解説

No existing original. This is a copy of a surimono, a so-called Akashi copy named after the Japanese town where they were faithfully reproduced in the 1890s, probably for sale to foreigners. Many of these copies (the 'copy-A' versions) show the same elaborate printing techniques as the originals of the early 19th century. That is why they were taken for originals as late as into the 1970s. It was only in the ground-breaking publication of Roger Keyes, THE ART OF THE SURIMONO, that their existence was documented for the first time. Original surimono were often commissioned by poetry circles and privately published. Surimono represent the peak in Japanese woodblock printing techniques. Their…

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