Yotsumeya Nishikigi – Antique Print
![Yotsumeya Nishikigi, [between 1775 and 1778] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/92/92d3ba9f4033-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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Yotsumeya Nishikigi
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The title, *Yotsumeya Nishikigi*, names a particular setting, and the print's tall, narrow format (about 67 by 12 centimeters) marks it as a hashira-e, or pillar print, meant to hang vertically or stand beside a column. It is a full-color woodblock nishiki-e, which dates it to the mid-1770s, when multicolor printing had recently become common in Edo. Its subject is women in everyday domestic life, a favorite theme of Edo printmakers of the period. The print is worth studying for its color and its record of how urban women were shown in leisure and daily routine.
| Created / published | [between 1775 and 1778] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 66.7 x 12 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: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. 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. 60, p. 117. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Domestic life--Japan--1770-1780. Women--Japan--1770-1780. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,655 × 4,603 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221962 |
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