Toyohara KUNICHIKA
(Japan 1835–1900)
- Title
- Crossing the Sumida river at night
- Other titles:
- Crossing the Sumida River, Tokyo, by night
- Alternative title:
- Sumidagawa yoru watasi no zu
- Place of origin
-
Japan
- Period
- Ansei era 1854 - 1860 → Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- 1855
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut; ôban triptych
- Dimensions
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35.0 x 72.0cm image/sheet:
a - left image (a woman)
b - centre image (two women)
c - right image (a woman and a man)
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. [part a], in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Toyokuni monjin Kunichika ga [picture by Kunichika, Toyokuni's disiple]". Signed l.l. [part b], in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Kunichika ga [picture by Kunichika]". Signed l.r. [part c], in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Kunichika ga [picture by Kunichika]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1958
- Accession number
- 9734.a-c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994, not paginated. cat. no. M12
- Exhibition history (1)
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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.
