Kinko echizen – Vintage Wall Art
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(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic print of Kinko echizen. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A figure named Kinko Echizen anchors this sheet, and its subjects are hairdressing and domestic life in Japan around 1700 to 1710. The print belongs to a series titled *Midare fuji* (Scattered Wisteria) and is a sumizurie, printed in black ink alone. Prints of this kind come from the early years of ukiyo-e, when Edo woodblock artists were first turning everyday urban life into popular pictures. Because there is no color, the strength of the image rests on its line and the arrangement of figures, which show how much the form depended on draftsmanship before multicolor printing arrived in the 1760s.
| Created / published | [between 1700 and 1704] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut ; 24.9 x 34.7 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: Sumizurie (monochrome). From the series: Midare fuji : Scattered wisteria. 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. 6, p. 20. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Domestic life--Japan--1700-1710. Hairdressing--Japan--1700-1710. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,439 × 3,582 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221857 |
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