Hanami no en – Vintage Print
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(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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Hanami no en
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The title, *Hanami no en* (a garden for viewing blossoms), points to the spring custom of going out to admire flowering cherry trees. This two-sheet vertical triptych, printed in color in 1862, is a Genji-e, a scene that borrows the costume and manners of the court in Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century novel *The Tale of Genji*. Late Edo printmakers favored the genre because it let them show contemporary women and elegant leisure under a classical guise. The print bears two signatures, Inch-an Rigyoku on the man's garment and Sakurai Kikujo on the standing screen, and its subject, domestic life in Japan during the 1860s, makes it a useful record of late Edo fashion.
| Created / published | [1862] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (2 sheets) : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Two panels of a vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Genji-e. Signatures of Inch-an Rigyoku on the obi (man's garment) and Sakurai Kikujo on the standing screen. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 33, pp. 70-71. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Domestic life--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,553 × 4,492 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221898 |
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