Tojin ja-odori no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Chinese dragon dance. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Tojin ja-odori no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Chinese dragon dance.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tojin ja-odori no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Chinese dragon dance.
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This color woodcut shows a Chinese dragon dance, a subject that places it firmly in Nagasaki, the one port where Tokugawa rules allowed Chinese merchants to live and trade in a walled residential compound, the Tojin yashiki. Dragon dances were a visible part of the community's festivals, and printmakers in the city often recorded such scenes for local and visiting buyers. The print is credited to Koizumi Minokichi, a Nagasaki engraver whose working life spanned the late Edo and Meiji periods. Its hōsho paper and layered color show how Nagasaki's woodblock trade drew on its unusually open contact with China.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 16 x 25 cm. (block) 20 x 30 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Nagasaki print. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 159; 47623a. Earlier control number: 236.3-7. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Dragon dance--1850-1900. Chinese--Dance--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,540 × 3,640 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227291 |
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