Kanaya uchi ukifune – Historic Reproduction
![Kanaya uchi ukifune, [between 1772 and 1780] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/55/5570548f6f8a-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.)
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Kanaya uchi ukifune comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Kanaya uchi ukifune
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Few prints on this board take their title from literature so directly. "Ukifune" names the heroine of the final chapters of *The Tale of Genji*, and the sheet places her in a domestic setting. It belongs to the series *Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyō* (*New Designs of Young Models*), in which artists showed the season's patterns through elegant figures at home. Dated between about 1772 and 1780, this vertical color woodcut reflects the nishiki-e style that followed the introduction of full-color printing in the mid-1760s. Its subjects, women's dress and daily life, make it a useful record of fashion in the 1770s.
| Created / published | [between 1772 and 1780] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 38 x 25.5 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Oban Nishikie. From the series: Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyō : Hiinagata Wakana no Hatsumoyo: New Designs of Young Models. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 80, p. 143. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Women--Clothing & dress--Japan--1770-1780. Women--Domestic life--Japan--1770-1780. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,592 × 4,444 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221931 |
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