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[Japanese Ukiyo-e print] – Antique Print

[Japanese Ukiyo-e print], 1750 — historic print
[Japanese Ukiyo-e print], 1750. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(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.)

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Set out as a four-sheet polyptych, with each panel matted separately, this woodcut shows polo, a sport that foreign residents brought to Japan's treaty ports during the Meiji era, when printmakers increasingly recorded new Western pastimes. The record gives a date of 1750, which predates both artists named, so the 1870s date attached to the subject is the more likely period. The names Utagawa Hiroshige and a later artist of the same name point to the Utagawa workshop lineage that carried the style deep into the nineteenth century.

Created / published1750
CreatorUtagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist.
Medium1 print (4 sheets) : woodcut color.
NotesPolyptych matted in 4 sections: left (1498a) left center (1498b) right center (1498c) right (1498d). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). 4-part print (A on D-size but opens to D-size or larger)
SubjectsPolo--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan6,224 × 8,886 px · prints to 21 × 30 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227795

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