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Details
- Other Title
- Chapter 40 The rites
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1857
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.8 x 23.3 cm image; 33.2 x 23.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., in Japanese, black ink "[Baichôrô Kunisada ga]".
Not dated.- Credit
- Gift of G F Williams 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 425.2001.4
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Utagawa Kunisada II
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About
Using the best quality papers, ink and gold leaf, 'Playing cards of Murasaki Shikibu’s Genji' is considered to be Utagawa Kunisada II’s most successful series. Evoking the Heian-period court game of shell matching, 'kai awase', each print in this series is identified by two shells, one of which bears the title and the other a 'Genji-mon', a crest corresponding to a chapter of the Tale.
In this series, Kunisada II relies heavily on the Genji images that his teacher and father-in-law, Kunisada, created for the illustrated book series 'Nise Murasaki inaka Genji', instead of merely transposing conventional iconography into a modern setting.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Genji - the world of the Shining Prince, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Dec 2008–15 Feb 2009