Kume the Immortal spies on a beauty – Vintage Print
![Kume the Immortal spies on a beauty, [between 1685 and 1695] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/69/695134d824eb-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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Step back in time with Kume the Immortal spies on a beauty, a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Kume the Immortal spies on a beauty
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Kume, a hermit said to have gained immortality, is shown peering at a woman doing laundry, the moment that in the well-known legend cost him his supernatural powers and sent him tumbling back to earth. The sheet is a monochrome woodcut in sumizuri-e, a black-ink style that was inexpensive to produce, and it is attributed to Sugimura Jihei, an early Edo printmaker. The record suggests it is probably one sheet from a 12-part series made between about 1685 and 1695, when printed images of everyday life and popular legend were becoming a commercial business in Edo.
| Created / published | [between 1685 and 1695] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut ; 26.8 x 38.1 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. Alternate title from exhibit caption for item. Format: Horizontal Oban Sumizuri-e (monochrome). Attributed to: Sugimura Jihei. Probably one sheet of a 12-sheet series. 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. 20, p. 43. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Voyeurism--Japan--1680-1700. Women--Domestic life--Japan--1680-1700. Laundry--Japan--1680-1700. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,520 × 3,650 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221964 |
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