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Source Description
Tawara Toda (Fujiwara Hidesato) on the shore of Lake Biwa with his bow watches the Dragon Princess arise from the water. She is asking him to destroy the giant centipede of Seta. The upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text.
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Document identity
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30560
label
Tokaido gojusan tsui
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object
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Source metadata
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30560
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object
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normalized
title
Tokaido gojusan tsui
description
Tawara Toda (Fujiwara Hidesato) on the shore of Lake Biwa with his bow watches the Dragon Princess arise from the water. She is asking him to destroy the giant centipede of Seta. The upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text.
provenance
C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
date
ca. 1845-1846 (late Edo)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
genreSpecific
color woodcuts
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1
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1
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import
Source extras
cul
Japanese
style
Utagawa School
inscriptions
[Signature] Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga
med
pigments on mulberry paper
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14883
5546
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JPK
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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10cee5aa6b625299