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[Japanese Ukiyo-e print] – Vintage Print

[Japanese Ukiyo-e print], 1750 — historic print
[Japanese Ukiyo-e print], 1750. 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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A window into the past: [Japanese Ukiyo-e print], preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Spread across six joined sheets, this color woodcut is a panoramic polyptych, and its subject is polo, a Western sport that reached Japan's treaty ports as foreign residents brought it in during the Meiji era. The catalog gives a date of 1750, but that predates both the subject and the artist's working life. The subject dates of 1870 to 1880 are a better guide to when the scene was made. The record credits Utagawa Hiroshige, though it lists two artists with overlapping names, so the attribution is worth checking. The wide format lets the galloping riders and crowded field spread across the full width.

Created / published1750
CreatorUtagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist.
Medium1 print (6 sheets) : woodcut color.
NotesPolyptych matted in 6 sections: left (1475a) left left center (1475b) left center (1475c) right center (1475d) right right center (1475e) right (1475f). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). 6-part print; A on F-size; 4-parts in C4 transp.
SubjectsPolo--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan4,507 × 3,655 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227797

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