Utagawa KUNISADA /TOYOKUNI III
(Japan 1786–1865)
- Title
- Variety of darkness: evening darkness
- Other titles:
- Mitate variety of darkness: evening darkness
- Alternative title:
- Mitate yami tukushi: yoi yami: dote no Naroku
- Place of origin
-
Japan
- Period
- Ansei era 1854 - 1860 → Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- 1854
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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Ôban tate-e: 35.5 x 24.6cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r.[ in cartouche], in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Toyokuni-ga [picture by Toyokuni]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1995
- Accession number
- 210.1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
-
Gary Hickey (Author), Beauty & desire in Edo period Japan, Parkes, 1998, 31, 32 (colour illus.), 71. fig.no. 26
'The Floating World', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 254 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
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The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994.
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998.
