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[Japanese Ukiyo-e print] – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Japanese Ukiyo-e 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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Enoshima, a small island off the Kanagawa coast, is the place named in this print, and its shrine to the goddess Benzaiten drew pilgrims from Edo for generations. The record dates the subject to 1840 through 1860, a period when townspeople made such trips to the island and nearby shrines. The tall, narrow sheet is a pillar print, or hashira-e, designed to hang upright in a room's alcove. The artist dates in the catalog do not match Hiroshige's known career, so the attribution is worth checking.

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). Pillar print
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 scan5,632 × 18,240 px · prints to 19 × 61 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227742

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