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[Japanese Ukiyo-e print] – Vintage 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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A window into the past: [Japanese Ukiyo-e print], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Enoshima, the small island off the Sagami coast that is joined to the mainland by a sandbar, was a major pilgrimage destination in the Edo period, drawing visitors to its shrines dedicated to Benzaiten, the goddess of water, music, and good fortune. This tall, narrow pillar print, a format built for hanging in a room, captures that devotional traffic. The record credits Utagawa Hiroshige, who lived from 1797 to 1858 and was known for landscape scenes of famous places. The catalog date of 1750 predates the artist, so the subject and the 1840 to 1860 range in the record are a better guide to when the print was made.

Created / published1750
CreatorUtagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist.
Medium1 print : woodcut color.
NotesForms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Forms part of the R. Leicester Harmsworth Collection. Pillar print; Harmsworth Coll
SubjectsPilgrims--Japan--1840-1860. Shrines--Japan--Edo--1840-1860. Japanese--Spiritual life--Japan--1840-1860. Eno Island (Kanagawa-ken Japan)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan2,063 × 10,775 px · prints to 7 × 36 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227792

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