Rakuda no zu – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic print captures Rakuda no zu in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Rakuda no zu
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Rakuda no zu, whose title means "Picture of a Camel," spreads a camel and a group of musicians across two vertical sheets. Camels were a rare sight in Japan in the 1820s. The animals reached the country through the Dutch trading post at Nagasaki, and public curiosity about them fed a demand for prints like this one. The catalog record pairs the camel with musicians, so the scene may depict a procession or a street exhibition, though the record does not say so directly. The two-sheet format gives the tall animal room to dominate the composition.
| Created / published | 1824 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (2 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 36 x 24.5 cm (left panel), 38.9 x 25.9 cm (right panel) |
| Genre | Diptychs Japanese 1820-1830.Ukiyo-e Japanese Color 1820-1830.Woodcuts Japanese Color 1820-1830. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2 sections: left (1511a), right (1511b). Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Camels--Japan--1820-1830. Musicians--Japan--1820-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,577 × 4,477 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221944 |
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