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[Japanese Ukiyo-e print] – Antique Wall Art

[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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Step back in time with [Japanese Ukiyo-e print], a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This vertical pillar print depicts Enoshima, a small island off the Kanagawa coast joined to the mainland by a sandy causeway, where pilgrims came to worship at a shrine dedicated to Benzaiten, the deity of music, water, and good fortune. Woodblock views like this were sold to ordinary buyers in Edo, and the narrow upright format was meant to hang on a pillar or post in a home. The 1750 date in the record does not fit the 1840 to 1860 period named in its subject headings, so the mid-nineteenth century is the more likely setting.

Created / published1750
CreatorUtagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist.
Medium1 print : woodcut color.
NotesForms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Forms part of the R. Leicester Harmsworth Collection. Pillar print; Harmsworth Coll
SubjectsPilgrims--Japan--1840-1860. Shrines--Japan--Edo--1840-1860. Japanese--Spiritual life--Japan--1840-1860. Eno Island (Kanagawa-ken Japan)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan2,143 × 10,298 px · prints to 7 × 34 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227790

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