Karasaki no yau – Historic Print
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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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A window into the past: Karasaki no yau, 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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Karasaki no yau
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Night Rain at Karasaki" is the title of this vertical print, which shows the western shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, where a celebrated pine grove grew near the water. It belongs to a series of paired views of Ōmi, a set of eight poetic scenes adapted from Chinese landscape tradition, and the sheet combines the three elements its record highlights: a lake, rain, and night. Printed as a color woodcut between about 1804 and 1818, it reflects the period's popularity for landscape prints that turned famous places into moods and seasons.
| Created / published | [between 1804 and 1818] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 23.2 x 17.2 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. Preliminary catalog record |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Chuban Nishikie. From the series: Shinpan ōmi hakkei : New Editon of Eight Views of Ōmi Province. 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. 21, p. 44. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Lakes--Japan--1800-1820. Rain--Japan--1800-1820. Night--Japan--1800-1820. Lake Biwa (Japan)--1800-1820. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,670 × 4,584 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221958 |
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