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Source Description
Mitsuuji pays a call on the young ladies of the house after a typhoon has passed. The highest ranking lady, wearing a blue-flowered hair ornament, is modestly hiding herself behind a standing screen.This print is from a series of fifty-four horizontal prints illustrating the chapters of the Edo-period novel "Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji" ("Fake-Murasaki's Country Genji"). Earlier in his career, Toyokuni III had illustrated the original publication of this novel. All the prints in this series have the same brown border design with Genji-mon (crests.)
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Document identity
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7673
label
Sono sugata Murasaki no utsushi-e
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obj
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object
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1
Source metadata
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7673
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object
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normalized
title
Sono sugata Murasaki no utsushi-e
description
Mitsuuji pays a call on the young ladies of the house after a typhoon has passed. The highest ranking lady, wearing a blue-flowered hair ornament, is modestly hiding herself behind a standing screen.This print is from a series of fifty-four horizontal prints illustrating the chapters of the Edo-period novel "Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji" ("Fake-Murasaki's Country Genji"). Earlier in his career, Toyokuni III had illustrated the original publication of this novel. All the prints in this series have the same brown border design with Genji-mon (crests.)
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snell, Jr. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1991, by gift.
date
1849-50 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
color woodcuts
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1
pageCount
1
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import
Source extras
cul
Japanese
style
Utagawa School
inscriptions
[Signature] Kochoro Toyokuni ga
med
mulberry paper, pigments
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14944
3275
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JPK
exhibition_ids
none
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1
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0
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photo
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