Mukōjima miyamoto musashi – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Mukōjima miyamoto musashi, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mukōjima miyamoto musashi
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Set in Mukōjima, the riverside district across the Sumida River from central Edo, this woodcut is one of Utagawa Kuniyoshi's entries in the series *Popular Restaurants of the Eastern Capital*. Its subject is Miyamoto Musashi, the seventeenth-century swordsman whose legend was a staple of kabuki and popular theater by the 1850s, and the record links the print to performances and to actors of that decade. Kuniyoshi, one of the most celebrated woodblock artists of the late Edo period, often turned such heroic figures into dramatic images. The print dates to 1852, a time when theatrical portraits and famous-place views were among the most sought-after designs in Edo.
| Created / published | 1852 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 36.4 x 24.8 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. From the series: Tōto ryūkō sanjūroku kaiseki : Popular restaurants in the Eastern Capitol. Signed: Ichiy-sai Kuniyoshi. Format: Vertical Oban 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. 11, p. 26. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Miyamoto, Musashi,--1584-1645--Performances. Actors--Japanese--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,572 × 4,517 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221879 |
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