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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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Step back in time with [Japanese Ukiyo-e print], a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Two sheets printed as a single diptych, this color woodcut bears the engraver's name, Matsushima Seikichi, and it sits in the Library of Congress's Japanese prints holdings through the Noyes Collection. The catalog dates it to 1750, but its subject heading points to ethnic groups in the 1800 to 1850 period, so the date is worth checking against the sheet itself. Ukiyo-e prints of this kind were mass-produced for an urban audience in Edo-period Japan, and the record's note calling the piece a "fake" suggests it may be a later imitation of an earlier style.

Created / published1750
CreatorMatsushima Seikichi engraver.
Medium1 print (2 sheets) : woodcut color.
NotesDiptych matted in 2 sections: left (1907a) right (1907b). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Diptych; fake; Noyes Coll
SubjectsEthnic groups--1800-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan6,418 × 9,272 px · prints to 21 × 31 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227343

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