Igirisu tame toriTITLE TRANSLATION:English polo game. – Vintage 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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This rare historic print captures Igirisu tame toriTITLE TRANSLATION:English polo game. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Igirisu tame toriTITLE TRANSLATION:English polo game.
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What sets this sheet apart is its subject: a game of polo, which Japanese printmakers rarely depicted. The title, "Igirisu tame tori," means "English polo game," and the print belongs to the series *Bankoku kokubutsu zukushi* ("Curious Things of Various Countries"). Such series caught the Meiji-era appetite for news of Western customs, which reached Japan through the treaty ports, where foreign residents introduced sports like polo in the 1870s. The print is signed "Hiroshige ga," and its date falls in the late 1870s, when woodblock artists were turning to these new foreign pastimes as subjects.
| Created / published | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Utagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 20.7 x 26.5 cm. (block) 20.7 x 26.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Hiroshige ga. Seal date: Meiji 4/7/10. From series entitled: Bankoku kokubutsu zukushi (Curious things of various countries). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 12; LC2585; 47623a; 33. Earlier control number: 4162-12. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930 (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Polo--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,467 × 3,577 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227793 |
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