Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 88337

Serving Tea

Artist / 作者: Mizuno Toshikata水野年方
Date / 年代: 1900
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / artelino
Digital record / 画像記録: 1321 × 1000 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Artelino
Published by / 公開者: 小春ユイ
Rights / 権利: All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
Attribution / 表記: Artelino

Catalog note / 解説

Kuchi-e were woodblock prints used as foldout frontispieces for novels or inserts into magazines from around 1895 to 1915. They were meant as a visual aid and as a sales promotion at the same time. In competition with Western lithographic or photo-mechanical printing techniques modern to the times, kuchi-e were usually well executed, sometimes in deluxe printing with such lavish techniques as mica or embossing. The main subjects were bijin-ga or beautiful women, often in a Western style presaging the Taisho modern women. For more on kuchi-e, please refer to: \"Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints\" by Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada

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