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[The itinerant monk Shintoku cures a mute girl] – Vintage Print

[The itinerant monk Shintoku cures a mute girl] — historic print
[The itinerant monk Shintoku cures a mute girl]. 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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Here a wandering monk named Shintoku is shown restoring speech to a mute girl, a healing story printed across two pages of a woodcut book. Likely dating to around 1713, the work comes from Japan's Edo period, when illustrated books of this kind carried tales of holy men and their miracles to urban readers. Its subject sits in the category of dreams and substances, which suggests the cure was tied to the spiritual and medicinal beliefs of the time. The page layout and carved line work are worth noticing, since they show how early eighteenth-century printers used woodblocks to narrate a story across a spread.

Medium1 print (2 pages) : woodcut.
Genredreams and substances
Notes[1713?]
SubjectsHealing--Japan--1710-1720. Mute persons--Japan--1710-1720. Monks--Japan--1710-1720.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,530 × 3,640 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222063

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