Hakurai Ozo no benTITLE TRANSLATION:Big imported elephant. – Historic Print
(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: Hakurai Ozo no benTITLE TRANSLATION:Big imported elephant., 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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Hakurai Ozo no benTITLE TRANSLATION:Big imported elephant.
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Few subjects in Japanese prints of the early 1860s were as unusual as an elephant, and this sheet is titled *Hakurai Ozo no ben*, or "Big Imported Elephant." The animal was a foreign rarity in a country that had only recently reopened its ports, so such sheets were part of a wave of popular curiosity about Western goods and novelties. The text is credited to Kanagaki Robun (1829-1894), a writer of popular fiction, and the design is signed by Ichiryūsai Yoshitoyo. The woodcut is attributed to the carver Hori Kane. Its date of 1863 places it near the close of the Edo period, when printed sheets like this one circulated as cheap, topical news.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Kanagaki Robun 1829-1894. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33 x 24.5 cm. (block) 36 x 25 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Ichiryūsai Yoshitoyo ga. Engraving attributed to: Hori Kane. Seal date: Boar 2. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 151; 47623a. DLC Earlier control number: 9943.5-4. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Elephants--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,010 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227642 |
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