[Elderly Japanese woman trudges up a mountain path towards her home] – Historic Reproduction
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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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Elderly Japanese woman trudges up a mountain path towards her home]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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An older woman climbs alone up a winding mountain path toward her home, with streams and trees along the way, in this woodcut dated 1811. The two-page format suggests it may have been printed as part of an illustrated book, a common form in Japan during the Bunka era (1804-1818). Woodcut was the main method of reproducing both pictures and text in the Edo period, so the carved outlines and flat areas of color are worth a close look. The record does not name the artist or the book.
| Medium | 1 print (2 pages) : woodcut. |
|---|---|
| Genre | dreams and substances |
| Notes | [1811] |
| Subjects | Women--Japanese--Japan--1810-1820. Older persons--Japan--1810-1820. Trees--Japan--1810-1820. Streams--Japan--1810-1820. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,636 × 4,550 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222082 |
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