Konjaku miken seibutsu moko no shinzuTITLE TRANSLATION:Changing times bring unseen things - true picture of a tiger. – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with Konjaku miken seibutsu moko no shinzuTITLE TRANSLATION:Changing times bring unseen things - true picture of a tiger., a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Konjaku miken seibutsu moko no shinzuTITLE TRANSLATION:Changing times bring unseen things - true picture of a tiger.
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The title promises a tiger, a "true picture" of an animal most viewers would have known only secondhand, yet the subject tags name leopards and roosters, a reminder of how loosely such prints were read. The record credits the writer Kanagaki Robun, while the signature names Kyōsai, the animal painter, as the artist who drew it on request. The sheet dates to 1860, just after Japan's ports opened to foreign trade, when exotic animals and foreign images were drawing public curiosity. The color woodcut on hōsho paper is worth a close look for its lively, humorous treatment of the animals.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Kanagaki Robun 1829-1894. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34.5 x 24.5 cm. (block) 34.5 x 24.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Motome ni ozu Kyōsai Shasei (by request). Seal date: Monkey 4. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 28; 47623a (white label). DLC Earlier control number: 4859-1. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Leopards--Japan--1860. Roosters--Japan--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,675 × 4,520 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227709 |
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