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An image of Suhara - Narihira and Empress Nijo by Utagawa KUNIYOSHI

Utagawa KUNIYOSHI

(Japan 1797–1861)

Title
Suhara - Narihira and Empress Nijo
Other titles:
Sixty-nine stations of Kiso-kaido: Suhara - Narihara and Empress Nijo
Alternative title:
Kiso kaidô rokujû-kyû tsugi no uchi Suhara Narihira Nijô-no kisaki
Place of origin
Japan
Period
Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
Year
1852
Media category
Print
Materials used
colour woodcut
Dimensions

Ôban tate-e: 35.5 x 24.0cm image/sheet

Signature & date
Signed l.l., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga [picture by Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi]" [and artist's seal]. Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1995
Accession number
212.1995
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (2)

AJIOKA Chiaki (Japan) (Curator), Heroes and villains: from Japan's floating world, Sydney, May 2001, 8 (colour illus.). cat.no. 2.5

'Love at lunchtime: The 2012 Arts of Asia lecture series' by Jackie Menzies, pg.47., Look Dec 2011-Jan 2012, Dec 2011-Jan 2012, 47 (colour illus.).

Exhibition history (2)

The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994.

Heroes and Villains, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 May 2001–19 Aug 2001.