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[Japanese Ukiyo-e print] – Historic Reproduction

[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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This rare historic print captures [Japanese Ukiyo-e print] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Set across two sheets that join into one wide scene, this color woodcut is a diptych, a format Japanese printmakers used when a subject needed more width than a single sheet allowed. The catalog names Matsushima Seikichi as engraver and gives a date of 1750, while its subject heading points to the period 1800 to 1850, so the dating is worth checking. Ukiyo-e prints were inexpensive, widely sold images, and paired sheets like these let the carved blocks show figures and surroundings at a generous scale.

Created / published1750
CreatorMatsushima Seikichi engraver.
Medium1 print (2 sheets) : woodcut color.
NotesDiptych matted in 2 sections: left (2325a) right (2325b). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Diptypch (A-size sheets)
SubjectsEthnic groups--1800-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan5,998 × 9,150 px · prints to 20 × 30 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227355

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