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[Yamaotoko I] – Historic Reproduction

[Yamaotoko I], 1963 — historic print
[Yamaotoko I], 1963. 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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This rare historic print captures [Yamaotoko I] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Yamaotoko I]

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*Yamaotoko I*, a 1963 color woodcut, pairs a mountaineering subject with doves, an unexpected combination that gives the image a quiet, almost symbolic tone. It belongs to the sōsaku-hanga, or "creative print," movement, in which an artist designed, carved and printed the block personally instead of dividing the work among specialists as ukiyo-e publishers had done. The Library of Congress included it in *The Floating World of Ukiyo-e* (2001), where it appears as a later point on the same woodblock tradition. Its date makes it a useful marker of how Japanese printmakers carried the medium into the postwar period.

Created / published1963
Medium1 print : woodcut, color ; 12 x 10 1/2 inches (approximate size).
Genreorganized by the Library of Congress, 2001. propose Mountaineers"?"
NotesTitle and other information based on entry for item in exhibition catalog. Sōsaku-hanga print. The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substance / essays by Sandy Kita ... [et al.]. New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Library of Congress, 2001, no. 87, p. 151. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows
SubjectsMountaineering--1960-1970. Doves--1960-1970.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,655 × 4,570 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221968

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