RYÔKO
(Japan)
- Title
- Song of farewell for a departing couple
- Other titles:
- Announcement of a Kabuki play, A gidayû verse: song of farewell for a departing couple
- Alternative title:
- Michiyuki sabishi (tabiji) no hanamuke
- Place of origin
-
Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- 1862
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
-
Ôban tate-e: 38.0 x 24.9cm image; 38.0 x 25.5cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Ryôko gi...(illeg.)" [and artist's seal]. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Ryder Walter Griffiths Swinson 1968
- Accession number
- DO20.1968
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
-
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994, not paginated. cat.no. K21
Editional Committee of the Ukiyo-e Encyclopedia (Japan) (Editor), Ukiyo-e Dai-hyakkajiten, Tokyo, 1982, vol.2 p.108 (colour illus.). plate no.566
- 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.
