Bunbuku chagama – Antique Print
![Bunbuku chagama, [between 1830 and 1850] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/31/31a7a4a016fa-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare historic drawing captures Bunbuku chagama in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bunbuku chagama
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Bunbuku chagama refers to a tea kettle from Japanese folklore that a tanuki, the raccoon dog often called a badger in English, has transformed itself into, a tale that appealed to Edo-period artists. Here the creature appears as an ink-and-color drawing on thin handmade paper, one of a group of pages once bound together and traditionally linked to the Hokusai school. The quick, economical brushwork typical of such sketchbook pages shows how artists of the 1830s and 1840s worked out ideas before committing them to finished prints. The title was supplied by cataloguers, not inscribed by the artist.
| Created / published | [between 1830 and 1850] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on thin handmade paper : ink wash, color ; 26.8 x 18.9 cm (sheet), 30.6 x 22 cm (mount) |
| Genre | no. 99 |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. DLC Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ... |
| Subjects | Badgers--Japan--1830-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,587 × 4,478 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221868 |
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